Re: Passwords in emails

The point to realize is that once it leaves your own infrastructure,
ANYTHING could happen to that email. In most cases, that will be
nothing... it will arrive on a destination server and then be kept nowhere
else. But the potential for it to be read or kept elsewhere is there; so
if it's a password to a crucial or valuable resource, it's probably a bad
idea to send a password in clear text. If for no other reason than as a
CYA measure!

There are alot of measures taken in IT security that are done for the sake
of auditor comfort or really, really long shot vulnerabilities. I see this
issue as the same sort of thing... the potential for exploitation or
trouble is pretty remote, but why open up the chance?





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On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Really, you did not here about the lost law suit when an ISP employee
read a confidential email that passed through there server.

Well, you can of course configure an MTA to save every mail that
touches it, but that is by no means a default or even widespread
configuration.

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