Re: it's mailman time again

[Jim Popovitch via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

On Sat, 2023-09-02 at 13:10 -0400, John Levine wrote:
> 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.

Mail in transit is mostly TLS transport these days, BUT mail in storage
and idle state isn't always secured.  I'm sure that most any of us could
find a public s3 bucket with an mbox file on it if we cared to look.

-Jim P.