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Hi John,
Here are my thoughts in the order that you wrote your questions.
1) Yes I see a lot of problems. Not so much with yahoo specifically
but the idea of sending sensitive information in clear text. This
allows anyone on the same segment
On Thursday 29 November 2001 12:31 pm, John Christopher wrote:
Hi -
Many security tools (logcheck, for example)
provide a facility for sending warnings, etc.
to an email address.
1. Can anyone see any security problems with
sending such info to a yahoo.com email address
(in other words,
You may also try www.ziplip.com
--- Igor D. Spivak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
that depends how sensitive is the envirenoment your
are working in, the
person who compromised a host (has root) can of
course look at the outgoing
mail spool and intercept mail, it will take someone
some time to
that depends how sensitive is the envirenoment your are working in, the
person who compromised a host (has root) can of course look at the outgoing
mail spool and intercept mail, it will take someone some time to break into
yahoo, and you can encrypt it, if you feel like it - that depends on the
1. I wouldn't trust yahoo mail for security, but that's up to you
2. I guess it depends on his positioning between yourself and yahoo, if he can sniff
traffic traversing the network you
are on or not
3. Doesn't matter if you never get it. otherwise, exactly what would you encrypt, the
fact that
