kovar@eclectic.com (David C. Kovar) (05/20/91)
I have established a mailing list for people interested in Macintosh
security. This can be used to:
* Discuss existing security problems in various Macintosh applications.
* Discuss security applications, hardware, and solutions.
* Discuss potential problems and their solutions.
* Just about anything else related to Macintosh security and
access control.
With the arrival of System 7.0 and it's wealth of information sharing
facilities, Macintosh security has entered a new era. Originally you
only had to worry about someone getting into your Macintosh via the
keyboard, or stealing it outright. Now it's much easier to browse
through information on someone else's Macintosh over the network.
If you're interested in joining the list, please send a message to:
mac-security-request@eclectic.com
Contributions to the list should go to:
mac-security@eclectic.com
At present, the list is unmoderated and will immediately distribute
any incoming messages to the list. If conditions change, the list will
change to a moderated list, a digest, or some other form. Also, we can
look into making it a newsgroup at some point but I'd like to start it
in this form and see what develops.
Please be careful about what you send into the list. If there is a
gaping hole in some software, *please* talk to the vendor before you
announce it to the outside world. Give them a chance to fix the
problem first. If they're unresponsive, then think about other solutions
to the problem. If you're in doubt, please send the information to
mac-security-request@eclectic.com and I'll discuss it with you or talk
to the vendor myself and see what can be done.
Please redistribute this message, particularly to whoever maintains
the list-of-lists since I can't figure out how to get onto that list,
or even where it is.
If you'd like a taste of the sort of things the list might discuss,
you can retrieve an article that I wrote for Information Security Product
News from the archive server by sending a mail message to:
archive-server@eclectic.com
The subject of the mail message should read:
send information ispnewsarticle
The article is slanted towards our company because it is a "demo
disk" article - you're supposed to promote your own products. You still
might find it interesting.
Please try and be intelligent about using the list.
-David C. Kovar
Consultant ARPA: kovar@eclectic.com
Eclectic Associates AppleLink: ECLECTIC
Ma Bell: 617-643-3373 MacNET: DKovar
"It is easier to get forgiveness than permission."