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DOD bars use of HTML e-mail, Outlook Web Access
FCW.com ^ | 12/22/06 | Bob Brewin

Posted on 12/27/2006 9:54:13 AM PST by Salo

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To: Mr Ramsbotham
If they want that level of security, they need to unplug all the automated systems and go back to pools of clerk typists.

That's the way I feel. Even though we have decreased functionality, we still have to meet all of our suspenses. I used to do an hour of email work a night and 2-4 per weekend at home over Outlook Webmail. No more.

61 posted on 12/27/2006 3:58:23 PM PST by TankerKC (When I think about me, I touch myself.)
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To: JRios1968
who (allegedly) lives in a 3-story condo by the beach...who (supposedly) has a wife who still looks like a supermodel

You're stretching it, I never claimed those exact things. But how about you put your money where your mouth is? I bet you $20,000.00 minimum, or more, however much you want in fact, that I do live in a 3 story residence over the bay, with a fireplace, hot tub, 55" HDTV, and boat dock with two lifts, both populated. I'll even donate half my winnings to Free Republic, so you won't have to worry about me spending all your money on myself. What do you say? I'm ready and waiting.

62 posted on 12/27/2006 4:02:33 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
I work in an IT shop at an Air Force installation, and I'm beginning to wonder if that isn't the idea. In the past six months they've implemented policies that have had a devastating impact on user functionality. In the past month they've denied file and print sharing on all hosts and denied the right of non-administrative users to load print drivers. It's getting absurd.

First rule of computers: security and convenience are inversely proportional.

63 posted on 12/27/2006 4:14:17 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: zeugma
phishing is much more difficult if you can't obfuscate the actual link address.

Exactly why HTML mail is being filtered, not yet everywhere, but probably eventually. The Chinese are phishing using messages that look like official DoD correspondence, which are of course, quite successful.

64 posted on 12/27/2006 4:23:10 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Doohickey
DoD's beef with OWA is that it doesn't support two-factor authentication.

Refreshing to see someone else who actually knows what they're talking about.

65 posted on 12/27/2006 4:27:12 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: D-fendr

Yes, but we've always operated behind their firewall.

To be honest, this is more of an inconvenience than anything else.

All we were doing was using colors to highlight revisions to subtasks and using hyperlinks to keep from attaching delivered documents.


66 posted on 12/27/2006 6:40:46 PM PST by HiJinx (Ask me about Support for our Troops)
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To: Salo

I've always prefered plain text E-mail.


67 posted on 12/27/2006 6:43:36 PM PST by Styria
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To: Starwolf
At $DAYJOB...

"$DAYJOB"?

Old VMS user?

68 posted on 12/27/2006 7:23:16 PM PST by whd23
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To: Golden Eagle; MikefromOhio

You wouldn't know OWA if it bit you in the nether regions, Iggle, and you know this to be true. But hey, since you're in the business of claiming to do and know things you clearly are ignorant about, did I mention I have been to space...twice?


69 posted on 12/27/2006 7:51:27 PM PST by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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To: Golden Eagle

$20k? Are you sure your unopened Star Trek TNG doll...I mean, ACTION FIGURE, collection is worth that much? Otherwise you will have to start selling stuff from your mom's basement, and I wouldn't want you to have to do without your binky!


70 posted on 12/27/2006 7:54:11 PM PST by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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To: Salo
Due to an increased network threat condition, the Defense Department is blocking all HTML-based e-mail messages and has banned the use of Outlook Web Access e-mail applications, according to a spokesman for the Joint Task Force for Global Network Operations.

It's about damned time.

71 posted on 12/27/2006 7:57:36 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Not one of those seasonal Festivians. I practice the Airing of Grievances daily. Often on this site.)
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To: 1rudeboy
Somebody please help me out . . . what is HTML-based e-mail, exactly?

Two things actually.

hotmail, yahoo and google based email in the browser type stuff.

Outlook has an option called OWA (Outlook Web Access) that lets users check their mail via a browser.

And then there is html formatting inside an email client. Ever received email with live links or pictures embedded ? That's html enabled email.

72 posted on 12/27/2006 8:00:27 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Not one of those seasonal Festivians. I practice the Airing of Grievances daily. Often on this site.)
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To: JRios1968

I take that as a no, you don't have the balls, or money, to bet me. Which of course I already knew, but just wanted to show everyone else I can back up my statements, while you, LOL.


73 posted on 12/27/2006 8:03:57 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
I can own you, young boy...I CHOOSE not to take your money, because to do so would lend you the slightest tinge of something you DON'T have...credibility. Capisce?
74 posted on 12/27/2006 8:16:44 PM PST by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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To: JRios1968
I CHOOSE not to take your money, because to do so would lend you the slightest tinge of something you DON'T have...credibility.

LMAO, taking my money wouldn't give me cred, you can't even complete a sentence correctly LOL. Money talks and BS walks, and right now you're all BS.

75 posted on 12/27/2006 8:22:26 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle

Young boy, you amaze me...every time I think you have hit rock bottom with your ignorance, you pick up your shovel and start digging again.

Actually, you amuse me. You are like the little mouse in the cat's claws...you don't realize I am simply playing with you, before I deliver that fatal blow to what little credibility you have, either here or anywhere.


76 posted on 12/27/2006 8:33:24 PM PST by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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To: Salo
HTML messages sent to his account are automatically converted to plain text.

That's a no-brainer to me.
77 posted on 12/27/2006 8:38:49 PM PST by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: JRios1968

What's wrong Jose? Either you're a man, or you're a chicken. We'll even throw in whoever is wrong has to permanently leave this site, or whatever else you can come up with. What's your excuse now?


78 posted on 12/27/2006 8:42:46 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: HiJinx

Got it.

Seems like a good use of an intranet.

But, I should let you do your own job..

-d


79 posted on 12/27/2006 8:44:31 PM PST by D-fendr
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To: Golden Eagle

Most of these so-called "tech threads" are so littered with ignorance that I seldom bother to even read them anymore. No wonder IT jobs are being shipped off to India. It's always the same thing: Microsoft sucks and IBM can do no wrong. Which is ironic to me since my former employer outsourced their data center to IBM shortly after I left the company, so when anyone calls the second or third level support they get...India.

You seem to enjoy it, and you're evidently pretty popular, so have at it!


80 posted on 12/27/2006 8:46:55 PM PST by Doohickey (I am not unappeasable. YOU are just too easily appeased.)
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