On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:54:04PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > http://www.detached.net/mailtunnel/desc.html
>
> Cute. In the early 90s I set up a daemon in LA which would
> open an Xterm on the display I specified in email to myself in LA
> from 50 mi. south. This used the | in the .forward file...
> saved a lot of driving.
>
> The deeper implication, of course, is that firewalls are
> useless for controlling insiders.
Around the same time, Marcus Ranum kept threatening on the firewalls
list to write NFS over email.... since email is always the one thing
that's let out of firewalls. At the same time I worked for a very
paranoid startup who wanted lots of controls on the firewalls
I was building to protect their nets but wasn't concerned about
the bandwidth of a couple QIC tapes in a briefcase.
Now days one could do better with HTTP- more
likely to be let out directly or through a fast proxy
rather than store-and-forward.
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Eric Murray www.lne.com/~ericm ericm at the site lne.com PGP keyid:E03F65E5
