Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 20:30:41 -0400 From: Patrick Li <pat@databits.net> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [Fwd:] Re: Silly crackers... NT is for kids... Message-ID: <20010817203041.A10116@databits.net>
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----- Forwarded message from Patrick Li <pat@databits.net> ----- | Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 20:29:03 -0400 | From: Patrick Li <pat@databits.net> | To: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> | Subject: Re: Silly crackers... NT is for kids... | User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i | | Fact #1: Old stuff die hard. SIGH | | -pat | ++ 17/08/01 06:52 -0700 - Laurence Berland: | | In a corporate environment, telnet should be long dead. Unfortunately, | | when your user base is the various and random members of a program at a | | University, it's not so easy. I took telnet down on a Linux server until | | I had a patch. It was down for three days. My replies to their emails | | included a free ssh client for windows, but alas, start->run->"telnet" is | | what they want to do, and taking telnet down only makes them mad. | | | | L: | | | | On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Carroll, D. (Danny) wrote: | | | | > Agreed | | > As far as I am concerned, anything less than SSH is asking for trouble. | | > | | > -----Original Message----- | | > From: Mikhail Aronov [mailto:aronov@parkline.ru] | | > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:54 PM | | > To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG | | > Subject: Re: Silly crackers... NT is for kids... | | > | | > | | > On Aug 17, 2001, Roger Chien wrote: | | > | | > >Don't you know that the effect of Code Red infected machine? | | > >Most of them are innocent. | | > > | | > >BTW, your FreeBSD isn't absolutely secure, apply telnet-AYT patch | | > >already? | | > I was sure telnet died about 20 years ago together with passwordless | | > logins etc. Uncrypted session == broadcast session, isn't it? | | > | | > Mikhail Aronov | | > aronov@parkline.ru | | > ----------------------------------------------------------------- | | > ATTENTION: | | > The information in this electronic mail message is private and | | > confidential, and only intended for the addressee. Should you | | > receive this message by mistake, you are hereby notified that | | > any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or use of this | | > message is strictly prohibited. Please inform the sender by | | > reply transmission and delete the message without copying or | | > opening it. | | > | | > Messages and attachments are scanned for all viruses known. | | > If this message contains password-protected attachments, the | | > files have NOT been scanned for viruses by the ING mail domain. | | > Always scan attachments before opening them. | | > ----------------------------------------------------------------- | | > | | > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | | > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message | | > | | | | Laurence Berland | | http://www.isp.northwestern.edu | | | | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | | with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message ----- End forwarded message ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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