Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:22:03 -0800 (PST) From: Dean Phillips <deanphillips@yahoo.com> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net> Cc: Mitch Collinsworth <mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [security] Re: Safe SSH logins from public, untrusted Windows computers Message-ID: <20020320212203.22489.qmail@web11301.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <15512.45145.604882.548449@trooper.velocet.net>
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Carefull out there. I don't think David meant to advocate hooking your computer up to someone else's network without the network owner's permission. I don't know anyplace where it is legal to do that. It is better to risk having to fly home early and reload a machine than to have a criminal record. Dean M. Phillips --- David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> wrote: > > You'd probably find that all those hotels are using > some form of > ethernet to connect their machine. If they're on a > single dialup per > machine, you can hack the windoze password and then > use it. Simply > connect the network connection to your laptop when > you sit down. > > You can't to trusted work on an untrusted machine. > This is the > problem that the music/content industry is facing. > There are things > you can do that surf the law of averages --- like > using s/key. The > argument there is that what you're doing is unusual > enough that the > hacker will pick on easier prey. > > Dave. > > -- > ============================================================================ > |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two > things can only be | > |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | > equal if and only if they | > |http://daveg.ca | > are precisely opposite. | > =========================================================GLO================ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of > the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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