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Re: Security of HTTPS
From: Chuck Vose <vosechu () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:43:42 -0800
Now that teachers have gotten smart enough to research potential plagiarism using google, lamer students have reacted by social engineering mailing lists in order to obtain custom text or pointers.
Can't we simply do what we usually do and hijack the thread to something that we're interested in? I believe that any question that spurns conversation is a good question. We're all adults here and questions that are obviously homework will most likely be ignored in public and rtfm'ed in private. What I'm getting at is that posting an rtfm in public is almost as annoying to me as the initial "please answer my homework question". If people want to answer the question, as paul often does, then who are we to complain about it? Part of the reason I believe this, is simply that rtfm's tend to erupt into flamewars and those are definitely best kept in private. Finally, how can you call it social engineering a mailing-list? Everyone knows what going on; some people decide to respond, some don't. But, as the latest entry suggests, sometimes people really just didn't find it when they did look. So, perhaps the best method is simply to follow the all common etiquette and simply ignore or rtfm off the list. It seems silly to demand compliance with mailing-list etiquette while breaking it yourself. _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Security of HTTPS Alex Bihlmaier (Nov 22)
- RE: Security of HTTPS Ben Nagy (Nov 23)
- RE: Security of HTTPS Marcus J. Ranum (Nov 27)
- RE: Security of HTTPS Alex Bihlmaier (Nov 27)
- Re: Security of HTTPS Chuck Vose (Nov 27)
- RE: Security of HTTPS Marcus J. Ranum (Nov 27)
- RE: Security of HTTPS lordchariot (Nov 27)
- RE: Security of HTTPS Frank Knobbe (Nov 27)
- Re: Security of HTTPS Ng Pheng Siong (Nov 28)
- Re: Security of HTTPS Frank Knobbe (Nov 28)
- Re: Security of HTTPS Ng Pheng Siong (Nov 28)
- Re: Security of HTTPS Frank Knobbe (Nov 28)
- RE: Security of HTTPS Frank Knobbe (Nov 27)
- RE: Security of HTTPS Ben Nagy (Nov 23)
- Re: Security of HTTPS Kevin Sheldrake (Nov 28)
- Re: Security of HTTPS Ng Pheng Siong (Nov 28)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Security of HTTPS Jean-Denis Gorin (Nov 23)