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Security Considerations

CoffeeLink News Server provides powerful user access controls with a flexible role based authorization mechanism. However CLNews does not support encryption of data over the network or of passwords stored in its database. As a result, users should not post any confidential information to a CLNews server that would ordinarily not be stored in unencrypted form. Fortunately, most discussions conducted on news groups do not involve highly sensitive information.



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