Re:KVMs

From: Ghaith Nasrawi (libero_at_aucegypt.edu)
Date: 02/18/05

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    To: "watkinstj" <watkinstj@iimef.usmc.mil>
    
    

    I don't think that's possible. the worst case is that somebody taking
    over the public machine, then he can switch the KVM controller to some
    other machine, but once it's switched, he/she looses control over the
    KVM and left on the machine (public) they are on. That's the worst
    case scenario.

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    From : "Tim Watkins" watkinstj@iimef.usmc.mil
    To : security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Cc :
    Date : 17 Feb 2005 03:03:37 -0000
    Subject : KVMs

    >
    >
    > Had a quick question...
    >
    > I have some users that want to use KVMs to switch between computers
    on 3 different / seperate networks.
    >
    > Are there any known security concerns about having networks set up
    this way?
    >
    > I am thinking that if I can remote into the machine that touches the
    cloud, I would be able to then by pass security and use that machine
    to remote into the private network.
    >
    > Any thoughts?
    >
    > Tim
    >

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     //\ Ghaith Nasrawi
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    PAST, n.
    That part of Eternity with some small fraction of
    which we have a slight and regrettable
    acquaintance. A moving line called the Present
    parts it from an imaginary period known as the
    Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of
    which the one is continually effacing the other,
    are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow
    and disappointment, the other bright with
    prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of
    sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one
    crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes,
    mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of
    the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning
    to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the
    Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the
    Past of to-morrow. They are one -- the knowledge
    and the dream. (The Devil's Dictionary)


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