"60 Minutes" and Web Site Evaluations
Bill Crosbie
crosbie at AESOP.RUTGERS.EDU
Tue Mar 4 10:29:45 EST 1997
>> that the internet expert said that one way that Leslie Stahl's page
>could
>> be perceived as having greater credibility was the fact that it was
>being
>> served from the CBS.COM domain. Did that in fact happen in the
>report?
>
>No.
>
>A purported *e-mail message* from Leslie Stahl was given greater
>credibility because Andrew Kantor configured his copy of Netscape to
>use smtp.cbsnews.com as his SMTP host. The mail header on the message
>he sent then indicated it had come through that server. In the
>sysadmin community this is a known shortcoming of SMTP (as just
>described to me by my sysadmin); plugging this hole seems to require
>firewalls, although "maybe the next version of sendmail fixes this."
>
>It's enough to make one get PGP.
Thomas,
Thanks for clearing that up for me, and thanks to everyone who has already
responded about my concerns. I may have been overly paranoid, but the
thought of a media outlet setting itself up as a known entity that would, of
necessity, have valid information gave me heebie-jeebies. Guess it was too
much Max Headroom when I was growing up....
Bill
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