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   Rob Swindell to Sean Dennis   
   Re: Packet password case   
   25 Apr 20 23:40:22   
   
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     Re: Re: Packet password case   
     By: Sean Dennis to Rob Swindell on Sat Apr 25 2020 11:16 pm   
      
    > Hi Rob,   
    >   
    >  RS> NetMail from insecure inbound, sure. I was talking about EchoMail.   
    >   
    > That's what I get for responding to mail when I'm half-asleep.  Yes, you're   
    > right: tossing unsecure echomail is just asking for problems.  Though I   
    > don't think I've seen any, uhm, issues with that since the late 90s when   
    > there were certain people in a certain mail network that were causing   
    > issues.   
      
   Oh, we were all young trouble-makers at some point, weren't we? :-)   
      
   Someone else did point out that if you had 2 authenticated links sending files   
   into a shared secure inbound, one could impersonate the other very easily   
   unless packet passwords were used. That's one case where the use of inboxes   
   could provide more security.   
      
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