Re: POP3 passwords
JGrimshaw_at_ASAP.com
Date: 10/20/03
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To: "Zachary Mutrux" <zmutrux@compumentor.org> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:22:29 -0500
Since most people are still dial-up, the odds of someone tapping into
their phone line with the intent to steal their POP3 passwords are not
very good...it's a point-to-point connection.
Same goes for DSL connectivity. That is generally a point-to-point
connection, at least as far as I have seen.
Since you have to be physically on the subnet to sniff it and start packet
capturing (in a wired world, at least), that minimizes a threat.
Broadband like a cable modem, on the other hand, is indeed wide open. Why
it's not such a big problem, I don't know. Perhaps the miscreants are
having more fun examining unprotected local shares on windows boxes, and
just stealing the Outlook PST files directly.
"Zachary Mutrux" <zmutrux@compumentor.org>
10/17/2003 06:40 PM
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POP3 passwords
Why has it not been a bigger problem that POP3 passwords are unencrypted
when sent over the public Internet? Seems like they would be pretty easy
for
a miscreant to steal.
zm
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