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

["Jeffrey Ferguson" <yogi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

SSH is about as secure as a cheap pad lock with a burgler holding a pair of
bolt cutters.




----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 8:14 PM
Subject: RE: [[cobalt-users] Server Hacked?]


> At 12:09 AM 2/15/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >It is not that telnet is that insecure. It is the people who use it.
>
> Every time you use telnet to log in as admin, you send your admin password
> over the Internet in plain text.
>
> Every time you use telnet to su into root, you send your root password
over
> the Internet in plain text.
>
> Yes, telnet IS insecure all by itself.
>
> Jeff
>
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> Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
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