Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:36:17 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Security
>Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 16:35:01 -0800 (PST) >From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >In any case, a good firewall like ZoneAlarm on the highest security settng >+ the latest windows patches + webwasher to prevent popup windows, cookies, >webbugs, and more + the use of a non-IE webbroser and non-Outlook mail >client (my recommend is Netscape 4.79 with Java turned off & Javascript in >Mail and News turned off + a good virus scanner (eg. McAfee) with the >latest updates and finally, www.pgpi.com's PGP Disk will help keep your PC >secured from outside hackers, safe from most silly Outlook/IE bbased >attacks, and all of your private data encrypted away from prying eyes. David... How up are you on security? Do you think these sorts of precautions would be enough to prevent some European corporation's internet connections secure to a probe by Eschelon? Of course since no one without special national security clearance has any idea what they're capable, I guess that's a moot discussion. >www.pgpi.com's PGP Disk will help keep your PC secured from outside Something that guy said that threw me was that PGP was an algorithm in itself. I always thought that PGP was Philip Zimmerman's system of excanging keys... and that he used RSA or some other established algorithm to do the actual encryption. My memory is foggy on this. The only time I used PGPi, I think I recall having to choose an algorithm from a drop-down box. Another thing this guy told me was that DES has been broken. I asked if it's something that would a few super-computers to throw at, and he said no. That is was a simple high-school hack of some kind. Like I said... I don't follow this stuff very much... so DES could have patched (can that be done?) by this point for all I know. >I laugh as other poor IE/Outlook users keep getting >hacked/viruses/exploited >with my Netscape-based, secured Libretto. Can someone explain to me just why Mircosoft thought it would be such a great idea to be able to set an option in Outlook(X?) that would allow email attachments to be launched automatically when an email is opened!!!???? As I recall, some of the first versions came set up that way by default. Wasn't that what originally inspired the creator of the Love bug? Matt _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
