[Announce] Worm leaked through

Thomas Vollmer thomas-ml at vollmeronline.de
Fri Jan 30 21:02:48 CET 2004


On Friday 30 January 2004 20:50, Werner Koch wrote:
> Hi!

Hi,

> As you might all have guessed, the recent worm mail used a faked From
> address which happens to be allowed to post to gnupg announce.
>
> Given that those worms are getting smarter and smarter in selecting
> address combination, we will have to implement stronger
> authentication checks to Mailman.

maybe a OpenPGP signiture is worth? ;-)

Thomas
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