UK gov get onboard the security notification train
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4291005.stm Now maybe if we can persude UK Gov to configure mailing lists correctly to not send virus content before it is scanned then maybe we can all sleep safe at night :) Colin Johnston
Also it's shame there's no sign-up confirmation email/SMS on these. Heck should I wish I could get all the spam trojans to sign up to this with interesting email/mobile-numbers and really annoy alot of people. Sigh - reinventing the wheel (badly) again. Wonders what's wrong with MailMan (etc) and just patch in an SMS system to it...??? -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Colin Johnston wrote:
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4291005.stm
Now maybe if we can persude UK Gov to configure mailing lists correctly to not send virus content before it is scanned then maybe we can all sleep safe at night :)
Colin Johnston
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On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 09:43 +0000, Alex Bligh wrote:
--On 24 February 2005 09:37 +0000 Martin Hepworth <martinh@solid-state-logic.com> wrote:
Also it's shame there's no sign-up confirmation email/SMS on these.
I am betting they don't PGP sign anything, so that it's entirely possible for some miscreant to provide spoof attacks.
On the other hand, they let you specify a ITSafe word which I gather they put in all the subjects, personally I'd prefer PGP though. -- Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org>
participants (4)
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Alex Bligh
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Colin Johnston
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Martin Hepworth
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Simon Dick