From the Harper Security Archives

April, 2002

Currently calling for papers/presentations from all Harper Security members

Email Redefined Symposium

Symposium Starts at 11am, goes through to 6pm, and adjourns for dinner. Lunch will be ordered for delivery -- Thai and Pizza are available.

Address: 5704 S. Harper, Suite 204.

Materials

• Call for Papers/Presentations
• Self-Shredding Email
• Google Search for Email Overload
• New York Times Article -- Help! I'm Drowning in Email

• Ending Spam as We Know It (Paul Pomerleau)
  1. Slowing Email Down
  2. Keys and Trust
  3. Key Servers
• Spam as We Know It -- the current state of the bulk mail business (Jason Packer)
  1. How it's done
  2. What it's capable of
  3. Why we might not want to put a stop to it...
• Filesystems for Efficient Mail Storage/Retrieval (Sung Koo)
• New Mail Should be Pushed, Not Pulled (Sung Koo)
• Server/Client Conversations About Email Status (??)
  1. Delivery
  2. Read
  3. Rejected as Spam
• What do you want to know in order to set priority levels? What do you want other folks to know about YOU? (Tentative Topic) (Ross Porter)
  1. Rating systems
  2. Communities...
• Text vs. Hypertext -- rethinking the base model for email (??)
  1. Threads
  2. Efficent N-Way Conversations
  3. Redundant Text
  4. Redundant Attachments
• So They Subpoenaed Your Email... (??)
• Firewall/Proxy Issues (??)
• Manually Transcribed Computer Security Vulnerabilities in the End-User Environment (Mark Pomerleau, in absentia)
• How Do You Replace a Well-Established System? Making CMTP Ubiquitous and SMTP Incompatible. (??)