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RE: [[cobalt-users] Server Hacked?]



Manuel,

Let me have a telnet account on any of your Cobalt servers.

Give me written permission to destruct-test your system for vulnerabilities.

Give me ten minutes.

I promise you'll have a system with a blank hard disk.

That's a promise.

Just because no one's done it yet doesn't mean it can't be done.

Jeff

At 08:14 AM 2/14/00 +0100, you wrote:
Hello all,

I still have some comments to the telnet discussion. I am at the
University of Saarbruecken (Germany) here. There are about 15.000 students
here and almost 75% have an internet account, private homepage, email
address and so on.

Moreover, ALL of them have a telnet account to the universities server and
as far as I know there was no security problem yet.

I don't know why but at it seems telnet isn't as insecure as we all are
afraid of...

Manuel

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