Re: [emergency-msg] Groups - modified

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Thanks, Kon,

We might as well make the best of it today, and see what happens.

Rex

At 8:09 AM -0800 3/29/05, Kon Wilms wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 15:49 +0000, rexb@starbourne.com wrote:
>>  Access:    
>
>Uh oh.
>
>For the benefit of member-services who I've cc'd:
>
>Your calendar system sends out an email whenever users schedule a
>meeting. Your mailing lists are indexed by google. Any script kiddie
>using google can search for a combination of 877 and passcode and hit
>our conference information. By its nature, your current mailing
>announcement system automatically compromises every new calendar
>announcement. People are then free to listen in on conferences, abuse
>them (as has already happened), or use them when the lines are dead air.
>
>Please either:
>
>a. change your listserver settings and prevent googlebot and other bots
>from indexing it (preferred, but you must do more than a simple
>robots.txt file)
>b. modify your calendar system to not send out telephone access
>information (or mask out the number & code when the email is generated).
>
>Cheers
>Kon


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