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Re: [SLE] Sending Email
  • From: Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:26:44 +0200
  • Message-id: <e5p79k$rlr$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> And the funny thing is that if I wanted to contact my nogoodnick
> buddies, I would choose to use other than port 25. Maybe their evil
> smtp daemon is listening on port 666 (evil, don't ya know). Just about
> any e-mail client lets you select the port. All this with standard
> off-the-shelf software.

But of course - however, the point is really that if someone wants to
spy on you and your internet-traffic, there's very little that'll stop
them.
If instead it's mostly about avoiding leaving an immediate trace,
security by obscurity does work quite well.


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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