I think it's silly. here we have a government which claims some understanding of the net yet most of their network infrastructure is insecure. and this open smtp relay is just the tip of the iceburg. a few years ago i scanned all military domain name servers for vulnerabilities under the old buggy bind4. A large number of military dns were found to be insecure. i then proceeded to contact these administrator to have them upgrade their servers in order to secure them. a handful did the rest just ignored the warnings. and i doubt much has changed today. silly happy government On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 measl@mfn.org wrote:

Anyone up for a little game of "Warn The Public"? :-)

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