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

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Hi Manuel,

It is not that telnet is that insecure. It is the people who use it. It's 
like the risk of parking your car on the street. 99.999% of the time when 
you return, it's just as you left it. The other .001% of the time, 
well... another car could have brake failure and use the side of your car 
to slow it down. Or some loser would break your window for your radio. If 
you don't park your car on the street, but instead, park in a garage, you 
will lower (but not eliminate) the odds of bad things happening to your 
car. You just have to weight the benefits vs. the risks involved.



>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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