+<h2>Security</h2>
+
+<p>Fetchmail was handed over in a pretty poor shape, security-wise. It will
+happily talk to the network with root privileges, use sscanf() to read
+remotely received data into fixed-length stack-based buffers without
+length limitation and so on. A full audit is required and security
+concepts will have to be applied. Random bits are:</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>code talking to the network does not require root privileges and
+ needs to run without root permissions</li>
+ <li>all input must be validated, all strings must be length checked,
+ all integers range checked</li>
+ <li>all types will need to be reviewed whether they are signed or
+ unsigned</li>
+</ul>
+