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  Re: Re: Packet password case
  By: Sean Dennis to Rob Swindell on Sat Apr 25 2020 11:16 pm

 > Hi Rob,
 >
 >  RS> NetMail from insecure inbound, sure. I was talking about EchoMail.
 >
 > That's what I get for responding to mail when I'm half-asleep.  Yes, you're
 > right: tossing unsecure echomail is just asking for problems.  Though I
 > don't think I've seen any, uhm, issues with that since the late 90s when
 > there were certain people in a certain mail network that were causing
 > issues.

Oh, we were all young trouble-makers at some point, weren't we? :-)

Someone else did point out that if you had 2 authenticated links sending files
into a shared secure inbound, one could impersonate the other very easily
unless packet passwords were used. That's one case where the use of inboxes
could provide more security.

                                            digital man

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