Re: Spam Sent from WebMail

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Nick Bright wrote:
> Ken A wrote:
>> Nick Bright wrote:
>>> Tomas Kuliavas wrote:
>>
>>>> Have you tried to protect your webmail traffic? Signed SSL certificate
>>>> costs less than 20 USD.
>>> I'd expect they support SSL on their end, this probably wouldn't make 
>>> any difference.
>>
>> The difference is that fewer passwords could easily be stolen if you 
>> used & forced SSL. This is certainly relevant.
>> Ken
> 
> How so? that would only prevent man in the middle attacks, when the 
> problem is almost certainly in a keylogger or trojan on the end users' 
> PC 

that's an assumption, isn't it.. Good security doesn't work that way. 
You have to do what you can first, then look around for who to blame 
when things go wrong. ;-)
Ken


- where the keyboard input isn't encrypted by the SSL certificate.
> 
> Though yes, I do want to use/force an SSL certificate, I do not agree 
> that it would help with the issue at hand.
> 
>>
>>>  - Nick Bright
>>>
-- 
Ken Anderson
Pacific.Net

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