Hello Gerard! On Tuesday, September 3, 2002 at 9:05:13 AM you wrote:
> Anyway, one of the problems I have with MS software is that it tags > all sorts of personal info to your files and now I find that TB! does > this to :-( Hm, I just tested it with your message and saw that my e-mail was added as an X-header (X-Sender). After thinking about it a few minutes I - an outspoken privacy and security freak - find that not just quite but completely correct. In most cases it may not seem interesting to see that a mail to you has been transferred wrongly to me. But wouldn't you as the receiver of such a message want to know that the message could have been read by me? Go one step further, one of your business associates writes a confidential but non-encrypted message to you, he addresses it wrongly (accidentally) to me. I read it, find the information quite interesting - perhaps I could use it to outbid you in a pitch - and then re-direct it to you, so nobody will notice anything. I outbid you and you never come to know what happened. I can think of another scenario - concerning personal information and gossip within a company - where it would be good to know that messages are wrongly delivered. Perhaps the accidentally wrong address happens frequently due to a user's mistake. wouldn't you want to know that so you can tell him? And what about using this feature especially to run confidential information to someone outside - a kind of Man in the Middle attack?* BTW, the point in signing messages with PGP (or similar schemes) is to prevent *any* meddling with messages ... *I know, this can also be achieved by just BCCing or mass mailing etc. -- Dierk Haasis http://www.Write4U.de http://Interest.Write4U.de/pongo PGP keys available: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=SendMyPGPkeys The Bat 1.61 on Windows 95 4.0 1212 C Asking dumb questions is easier than correcting dumb mistakes. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
