[rescue] MSFT == a-holes! (please excuse this OT rant)

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, September 6, 2001 at 02:13:46 (-0400), Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: ]
> Subject: [rescue] MSFT == a-holes!  (please excuse this OT rant)
>
> Customer is running a small e-commerce site.  Since the logins are usually
> done over SSH (smart),

Yes, smart.

> they would like to have all SMTP and POP3 also
> encrypted when they are sending and receiving mail(smart).

No, not smart.

E-mail encryption should always be done in/beside/from the MUA, never
any part of the transport.

(of course POP/IMAP authentication needs to be done securely, and any
kind of remote SMTP server access needs authentication too....)

> Microsoft must die.

Yup -- just don't ever use any M$ software and they cannot affect your
life!  :-)

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