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

[Mike Vanecek <Clist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Telnet is weak and SSH is weak. Yet I sometimes need to telnet in to my Qube.
So what is the answer?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:14:12 -0800, Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

:>At 12:09 AM 2/15/00 -0500, you wrote:
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:>>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.
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:>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

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:42:04 -0500, "Jeffrey Ferguson" <yogi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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