Re: A poor man's activity check :)

From: Art Kopp (artnpeg@nowhere.com)
Date: 01/10/02 

From: artnpeg@nowhere.com (Art Kopp)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:52:01 GMT

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:56:33 -0500, David McGovern
<dmcgovern0@mindspring.com> wrote:

>Art Kopp wrote:
>
>> On 10 Jan 2002 08:01:00 GMT, Juergen Nieveler
>> <juergen.nieveler@web.de> wrote:
>>
>>>> What's wrong with scp and sftp? Throw in slogin and you'll never need
>>>> to use ftp or telnet daemons.
>>>
>>>AMEN :-)
>>>
>>>Add SSH to the list, and forget all about the terrors of active/passive
>>>ftp.
>>
>> Can you elaborate a bit on the terrors of FTP? I use the FTP.EXE
>> utility supplied with Windows for auto-updating antivirus programs.
>> What are the dangers here? Just compromised servers? What about my
>> situation where all ports are normally closed and I'm running single
>> PC with no firewall? Is there some advantage to using some firewall or
>> another?

>Besides the handshaking issues, FTP, as well as telnet and the r-utilites,
>sends authentication in clear-text. That opens up a whole slew of ways for
>a cracker to get your password. The ssh suite uses public/private
>encryption for the entire session, a much safer method.

That doesn't concern me since I use purely anonymous log in. BTW, I
experimented using Sygate's freeware firewall while doing a FTP
session. It blocked something on a high port # in the >50,000 range. I
don't really know if that means anything or not. I'm still at a loss
on my question of whether or not a firewall is worth the memory it
occupies :)
    
Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg
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