Re: Remote security practices

From: Carsten Schultz (carsten_at_codimi.de)
Date: 01/27/04

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    Date: 27 Jan 2004 02:10:57 GMT

    Hi Joseph!

    Joseph Battaglia:
    > As a student I often find myself in need of accessing my home computer
    > (via remote SSH) from my school's (Windows) computers, and since I'm
    > pretty paranoid about my password security, I'll never use PuTTY from
    > within Windows as my school is full of script kiddies whom no doubt have
    > keyloggers installed (which should probably be assumed for most public
    > computers).
    >
    > So what measures have people taken to ensure their entire connection (not
    > just over the network) is completely secure? I've come across the two
    > obvious solutions...
    >
    > a) Bootable live CD linux distribution

    In an environment where you can boot from your own CD, you do not have
    to be paranoid to not trust the OS installed on the hard disk.

    That was just meant as a sympathetic remark, no advice from my side,
    sorry.

    Carsten 

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