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"Security hole"?

"Security hole"?

Posted Oct 13, 2003 2:46 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: "Security hole"? by TwoTimeGrime
Parent article: E-mail filters not fooled by signed spam (News.com)

Please, don't take so seriously comments ending with a smile. It was a joke, maybe not a good joke, but let's not make it a discussion about Outlook.

Passing a message is not a security hole in the usual sense, but spamming everybody in a large company with a "signed" message can be just as costly as defacing the webserver.


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