U.S. spy agencies ... email for cybersecurity

Tue Jul 10 03:17:19 UTC 2012

I think what Gen.Alexander said and what the reporter missed out is
that they're interested in malware traffic flows, bot C&Cs etc, rather
than smtp received headers

> He said the information the government was seeking was the Internet
> address where an email containing malicious software originated and
> where it traveled to, not the content of the email.

--srs

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:16 AM, William Allen Simpson
<william.allen.simpson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Somebody needs to give them a clue-by-four.  The private sector
> already has the "Internet address where an email ... originated";
> it's already in the Received lines.  We don't need to be informed
> about it, we already inform each other about it.


-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)