On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 21:38 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wednesday 31 January 2007 21:25, Christopher Aillon wrote: > > Silly me. I actually believed for a second that you were using > > evolution-2.8.2.1-3.fc6 to send your emails... Yes, it exposes me to be a likely victim of certain type of evolution (esp email) exploits. In other words, the fact evo transmits this info is a security relevant BUG in evolution. Nevertheless, evo is still is a client, not a server, so should exploits happen their impact is likely to be limited. On servers the situation is different, faking/suppressing id strings is pretty effective to at least to irritate potential attackers. > From a machine with a local address of 192.168.1.100, external address > hsi-kbw-082-212-056-027.hsi.kabelbw.de ([82.212.56.27]) blah blah blah... Yes, you apparently know to read mail headers. It doesn't tell you which NIC or GPU or CPU this machine has, if this is a physical machine at all (I could be masquerading) nor how many machines I have in my network, nor ... does it tell you the uptime, nor the bogomips nor does this allow you any conclusion on my income. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
