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Where Should Email/IM Run?
•As productivity applications, they must be well integrated in the work environment (green)
•Threats—A tunnel from the bad guys
–Executable attachments
–Exploits of complicated data formats
•Choices
–Run two copies, one in Green and one in Red
–Run in Green and mitigate threats
•Green platform does not execute arbitrary programs
•Green apps are conservative in the file formats they accept
–Route messages to appropriate machine