--On Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:45 pm +0200 Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 3:28 PM +0100 2004-08-11, Ian A B Eiloart wrote:
I guess you'd still need to ensure the kids used good passwords and didn't share them.
Then there's the spyware issue. I mentioned this privately in e-mail to Johnathan, but I'll also copy the relevant paragraphs here:
Recent reports are that the average PC has something like 30 pieces of spyware on it. Each piece of spyware can do things like sniff every packet coming into or going out of the system, everything typed at the keyboard, everything cut-n-pasted through the clipboard, etc....
. . .
As I said, it depends on what you call "secure".
Ah, fair point. I guess you could insist that the kids all have Macs, not windows PCs. But, if you are in a school campus environment, then you could just remove access to the internet.
Anyway, if that level of security is a problem, then it applies to much much more than mailing lists. I think the question "is mailman secure enough to do X" should be taken to read "are there any additional security issues involved". I think the answer is "Yes", but mailman has the tools to address them.
Is there a primer on Mailman security anywhere?
-- Ian Eiloart Servers Team Sussex University ITS
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