On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Matt Crawford wrote:

[snip]
> We here all know that hiding names and addresses isn't "real"
> security.  But it's on a lot of checklists.  People with the smarts
> and backbone to criticize the checklists are often not in the right
> organizational place to get them changed.

.. and there are quite a few 'security professionals' with a vested
financial intresting in selling security solution packages that include
such useless protections especially once which increase support and
maintance expenses.

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