Subj : Re: Packet password case
To : Sean Dennis
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Sat Apr 25 2020 11:40 pm
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.
