Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:21:19 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "RW" <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: caleb <destroyingculture@netspace.net.au> Subject: RE: pine Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIEAIFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <200512140207.44237.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of RW >Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 6:08 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Cc: caleb >Subject: Re: pine > > >> 'Can't do secure authentication with this server' > >If the server supports neither ssl, nor any form secure >authentication, there >nothing you can do to protect your password. Garbage. The first thing you can do is go out and shoo the crackers off the telephone pole who are tapped into your phone line and sniffing your passwords. Then you can ask your ISP to start locking the door to his NOC and kick out all the crackers who have sleeping bags in the NOC and are tapped into the ISP's ethernet cable from his router to his mail server. But the thing that would probably put your mind at ease the most is to stop going to Hollywood movies like The Net which make it appear as though crackers can magically sniff your cleartext passwords when they have access to the network between your PC and the ISP's mailserver. Ted
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