[Info-vax] Is Eisner down?

Jan-Erik Soderholm jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com
Wed Dec 4 17:36:54 EST 2013


VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote 2013-12-04 23:09:
> In article <l7o6ki$h0e$1 at solani.org>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
>> Bill Gunshannon schrieb:
>>
>>> I have to say it again.  Why on earth would anyone run telnet on any
>>> server?  What can it possibly offer that is worth the risk?
>>
>> Less hassle than the mess which comes with ssh/ssl?
>> And if the network is "internal", what risk?
>
> Internal networks have as many if not more reason to use it.  It's so easy
> today to load Linux on a box and fire up Wireshark.  It won't take too long
> before somebody is sniffing the passwords to administrative accounts!
>

On an older networks using hubs maybe. On a modern network using
switches, your Wireshark will only see your own network traffic.
You need some network admin to do some "mangement" in a switch
to copy others traffic to your port.



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