[Info-vax] Is Eisner down?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <00ADD49B.FCF8A6EB at sendspamhere.org>,
	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> 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!

Wireshark?  Too much work.  I'm sure I still have copies of the program
I used to demo in security classes that will run on any BSD or Linux box
and happily sniff the network with the knowledge necessary to catch login
dialogues and just save userid/password pairs for you.

bill
 

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