IP: Yet another e-mail filter effect: [risks] Risks Digest 21.50

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:47:41 +0200
>From: j.bos@interpay.nl
>Subject: Yet another e-mail filter effect
>
>The IACR (International organisation of Cryptology Research) has someone on
>its Board of Directors named Don Beaver.  The direct result of this is that
>the recent IACR newsletter (a 34K document full of relevant news on the
>cryptologic community) was rejected by our company firewall, because his
>name was in there too many times. It also contained other "dirty" words,
>such as LaTeX, hardcore, and so on.
>
>Our IT department told me that the message would *not* have been rejected if
>it was split in two, since the number of dirty words would have been halved.
>X-|
>
>Sigh. I though cryptology was to prevent us from this kind of misery.
>
>Jurjen N.E. Bos, Risk Management / Information Security Services
>Interpay Nederland BV, Postbus 30500, 3503 AH Utrecht  tel. +31 30 283 6815



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