Re: US Military bans HTML in emails

AEF wrote:
Arne Vajhøj wrote:
David J Dachtera wrote:
Bill Gunshannon wrote:
Not in the real world. Good enough doesn't cut it when someone higher
than you says, "The corporate standard is MS Word."
...until the(ir next) multi-billion-dollar outage due to malware. Then, the
higher-ups face turn-over while the workers bees burn the midnight oil to clean
up the mess.
There were some real bad incidents 3-5 years ago.

No move from Windows then.

Now the MIS departments has tightened security.

You mean like requiring 6-character passwords to now be "complex"?
Yeah, that'll stop 'em!!! ;-)

OK, maybe they're actually doing some more useful things.

More as in:
min 8 characters
min 1 uppercase
min 1 lowercase
min 1 digit
min 1 punctuation

Or as in email scanners that removes all EXE, BAT etc. from attached
ZIP files in inbound email.

Arne
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