Re: National security backdoor.

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Date: 04/06/04

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    Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 15:02:51 +0000 (UTC)

    In article <okh9k1-592.ln1@parsys.cs.uic.edu>, "Jon A. Solworth" <solworth@RemoveThisNow.cs.uic.edu> writes:
    >Colin B. wrote:
    >> Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
    >>
    >>>"Shampoo" <shamy@ptbo.igs.net> writes in comp.security.unix:
    >Not to mention (well, I'm going to mention it), nobody uses telnet
    >anymore.
    Maybe in 5 to 10 years time that statement will be true.
    But at the moment the number of machines running Telnet and ftp (both of which
    send passwords in clear text) far exceeds the number running ssh and sftp.

    What you probably meant was that nobody should be using Telnet if they can
    avoid it. The problem being that you only control your own machines not all the
    machines you may need to access or transfer files to outside of your
    organisation.

    David Webb
    VMS and Unix team leader
    CCSS
    Middlesex University

    >For one thing, no back door is needed as it puts out passwords
    >in the clear on the network.
    >
    >Jon

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