# Out-of-Office Messages are a Security Risk

Type: linked post (commentary on an external article)
Article: https://web.archive.org/web/20190203234629/https://lonesysadmin.net/2019/02/03/out-of-office-messages-are-a-security-risk/
URL: https://www.jonathant.com/blog/out-of-office-messages-are-a-security-risk/
Published: 2019-02-04
Updated: 2026-08-09
Author: Jonathan Tarud

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> Sometimes I’m really out of the office, though, crawling around in the backcountry wilderness or on an island somewhere. I’ll do it if I have to, but even then I don’t like setting an automatic response. There’s no way to do it that doesn’t leak information to a would-be attacker.

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Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20190203234629/https://lonesysadmin.net/2019/02/03/out-of-office-messages-are-a-security-risk/