Re: it's mailman time again

On Sat, 2023-09-02 at 13:10 -0400, John Levine wrote:

It's like changing your password, it sort of made sense in the 1980s when networks meant coax Ethernets and bored students could sniff passwords, and now it's cargo cult security. These days the only sniffable shared media left is passwordless wifi and even there as you note, mail all goes through TLS tunnels.

Mail in transit is mostly TLS transport these days, BUT mail in storage and idle state isn't always secured. I'm sure that most any of us could find a public s3 bucket with an mbox file on it if we cared to look. -Jim P.