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Re: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..'
From: Bill Fenner <fenner () research att com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:58:16 -0700
How many of us here run anything less than SSH and even allow telnetd to live on any of our hosts?Here? Probably not all that many.[bill's password slide from the Scottsdale NANOG] suggests that many (most?) of the NANOG attendees are shipping passwords around in the clear (not necessarily all telnet, but indicative of a mindset).
The system with that data on it is off right now, but my recollection was that the top three offenders were (in no particular order) - cleartext POP - cleartext IMAP - http:// (mostly people reading their email via Exchange). Note that the final slide that I put up at the end of the meeting (with something like 150 passwords on it) had one of my passwords too (my Vindigo password, if anyone wants to change what cities I have configured =), so even people who are aware of the issues sometimes still send cleartext passwords. Bill
Current thread:
- RE: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck ..' Roeland Meyer (Jul 24)
- RE: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck ..' Mitch Halmu (Jul 25)
- RE: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck ..' Steven J. Sobol (Jul 28)
- RE: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck ..' Deepak Jain (Jul 28)
- RE: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck ..' Steven J. Sobol (Jul 28)
- RE: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck ..' Charles Sprickman (Jul 28)
- RE: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck ..' Steven J. Sobol (Jul 28)
- RE: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck ..' Mitch Halmu (Jul 25)
- Re: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..' Mark Boolootian (Jul 25)
- Re: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..' Richard Welty (Jul 25)
- Re: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..' Bill Fenner (Jul 25)
- Re: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck ..' John Fraizer (Jul 25)
- Re: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck ..' David Shaw (Jul 25)
- Re: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck ..' Stephen J. Wilcox (Jul 25)
- Re: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck ..' Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 25)
- Re: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck ..' David Shaw (Jul 25)
- Re: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck ..' Majdi S. Abbas (Jul 25)
- Re: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck ..' David Shaw (Jul 25)