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Re: it's mailman time again
From: "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 2 Sep 2023 13:10:27 -0400
It appears that Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> said:
On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 10:16:05AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:and i just have to wonder about sending passords over the net in cleartext in 2023. really?This is a non-issue.
It's like changing your password, it sort of made sense in the 1980s when networks meant coax Ethernets and bored students could sniff passwords, and now it's cargo cult security. These days the only sniffable shared media left is passwordless wifi and even there as you note, mail all goes through TLS tunnels.
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