[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: [FW1] Autoreplies sent to the mailinglist
Yeah, and as if someone can't look at the email below that you posted with all your damn contact information, name, title etc. and easily social engineer a password out of somebody. You sound like the Home Security Salesman that leaves his garage open just because you live in the suburbs. -----Original Message----- From: Nico De Ranter [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 3:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [FW1] Autoreplies sent to the mailinglist <rant> I am subscribed to a large number of mailinglists mainly development and security related. Some of them are low traffic some of them generate a few hundreds of e-mails a day. There isn't a single mailinglist amongst them however that generates as much autoreplies as the FW-1 mailinglist. Aren't we supposed to be a bunch of security aware people managing firewalls? Then why are so many people yelling "He, I won't be looking until xx/xx, you've got my e-mail address and domain from the e-mail headers, please go ahead and crack my site. I'll do the forensics when I'm back in a week or two." If you go on vacation to a far away island, do you attach a paper to your window saying "this house will be empty for the next few weeks"? I'm sure most of you will have a backup administrator to look after the firewall when you're gone but unless you're working for a very big company (s)he is probably not going to know as much about the system as you do. I you realy have to use vacation messages then please configure it properly so it won't send replies to mailinglists. </rant> Sorry for using up bandwidth with this message but I realy got pissed after having received the 20th autoreply message. Nico --------------------------------------------------------- "It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry." --------------------------------------------------------- Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [email protected] ============================================================================ ==== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ============================================================================ ==== ================================================================================ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================================================
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