__/ [ Linonut ] on Tuesday 26 December 2006 17:50 \__
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Rex Ballard belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> The second concern is around Vista security. If Microsoft can't even
>> protect it's own crown jewel from hackers, how can I possibly trust
>> them to protect my financial records, passwords, access codes, and
>> other personal and company confidential information?
>>
>> The big promise of Vista was that they were going to fix security.
>> Looks like their big "fix" was merely to disable installation of
>> competitor software, while letting the malware in through the ever
>> popular back doors (ActiveX, embedded Com and Com+ objects, and
>> macroviruses).
>
> I sent myself a reminder from home to work today. It hasn't arrived,
> although corporate email has. I was wondering why.
>
> Here's why:
>
> http://www.fcw.com/article97178-12-22-06-Web
>
> DOD bars use of HTML e-mail, Outlook Web Access
>
> BY Bob Brewin
> Published on Dec. 22, 2006
>
> Due to an increased network threat condition, the Defense Department
> is blocking all HTML-based e-mail messages and has banned the use of
> Outlook Web Access e-mail applications, according to a spokesman for
> the Joint Task Force for Global Network Operations.
>
> . . .
>
> In an e-mail to Federal Computer Week, a Navy user said that any HTML
> messages sent to his account are automatically converted to plain
> text.
>
> Hell, my email /was/ plain text, and I still can't receive it.
>
> See the sig.
Filtering gets hard. 9 in 10 messages is SPAM. 86 billion SPAM per day (and
still rising).
(Cringely on Earthlink E-mail)
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| Here is something I wish I were making up. A good friend of mine noticed
| last June a sudden and precipitous decline in his volume of incoming
| e-mail with the numbers dropping by 80-90 percent. Was he less popular,
| less interesting than before? Or maybe some Bayesian filter had been
| imposed by his ISP (Earthlink) to suddenly spare him completely from
| spam. No such luck.
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