On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hugh McIntyre wrote:
>>
>> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>>
>>> Note that the new filtering will not allow publication of cases whose
>>> mail logs contain such garbage mail signatures as "This email message is
>>> for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain
>>> confidential
>>> and privileged information."
>>
>> This seems a bit of a drawback, and worth a filter to bounce messages back
>> to avoid a bunch of cases inadvertently becoming closed.
>>
>> Is the filter triggering off "confidential" anywhere in the message (which
>> would seem bad) or only in a signature or other intentional header?
>
> I think the script under consideration has blacklist words like
> "confidential" "proprietary" or "engineering only".   It appears that the
> filter is not very smart about the context where these occur, and it would
> probably be best to avoid any of those words in any ARC case mail going
> forward.
>
> In case its not obvious, yes, I think this restriction is silly and likely
> to cause far more problems than it solves.  But don't ask me, I just work
> here. ;-)
>

Do I understand correctly that any email to a public mailing list
which contains any of the above words would cause the case to be
unavailable?

This seems like it's trivially exploitable.
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