Jargons of Info Tech industry

[Tim Tyler]

Gordon Burditt <gordonb.8p4v4 at burditt.org> wrote or quoted:

> Before worrying about the possible bugs in the implementations,
> worry about security issues present in the *DESIGN*.  Email ought
> to be usable to carry out a conversation *SAFELY* with some person out
> to get you.  Thus features like this are dangerous (in the *design*,
> not because they *might* hide a buffer-overflow exploit):
> 
> - Hyperlinks to anything *outside* the email in which the link
>   resides ("web bugs").

Acceptable risk, IMO.

> - Any ability to automatically generate hits on sender-specified
>   servers when the email is read.

I hadn't though of that one.  As well as use in DDOS attacks, that
can help let spammers know if they have reached a human :-|

Even a link in a plain text email can be used (though with reduced
effectiveness) in such a context :-(
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