Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 17:27 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:Anyone who thinks identd provides any security at all wrt computers they don't control is ignorant or stupid.It's trivial to find (or even, at a pinch write/modify one) a fake identd that will say anything one chooses; anyone implementing security assuming otherwise is trusting the untrustworthy.Too true, but unfortunately that doesn't stop some ISPs from leaving their mail servers configured to check for it. Nor does it stop many
Sendmail used to do that. I don't normally use sendmail these days, so couldn't say whether it's changed. It'd be pretty simple for the pfy to overlook it.
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