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Re: Top IT official: Disabling security for Clinton server laid out 'welcome mat' for hackers |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Jun 26 19:40:17 2016, in response to Re: Top IT official: Disabling security for Clinton server laid out 'welcome mat' for hackers, posted by 3-9 on Sun Jun 26 08:07:33 2016. That's a very bad design were that the case. And by the year 2000, that concept fell quickly by the wayside in favor of deep packet inspection and filtering rules. Email file attachments are in MIME-types such as UUENCODE, XXENCODE or MEME64 because the email standards we still use are 7 bit for text and attachments, usually being binaries, require 8 bit encoding. So even when emails weren't encrypted, testing the contents of attachments prior to being unpacked were difficult.Now, because of encryption, networks have border routers that actually decrypt and examine every piece of what goes through prior to sending along into the actual network. The reason why I criticize Fox News on this story, and their "expert" if he actually explained this to them that way, is that the days when you would have an antivirus on the mail server went by the wayside in corporate systems back around 2004. It took a few years for government to catch up, but they had gone to this methodology by 2007 at the behest of the military who had been doing this since around 2001. And Trend Micro? Seriously? They never were very good. |
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