Tuesday | 6 January, 2009
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Stories by: Paul Simmonds

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    E-mail and its security discontents 16/01/2008 10:10:31

    The late Internet pioneer Jon Postel (1943-1998), among others, developed the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) in 1982 that is still used today for Internet mail communications. But I'm sure Postel would be turning over in his grave if he could see the abuse that his protocol is subject to today.
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