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RE: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Sat Jul 28 18:53:28 2001

Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:52:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: Mitch Halmu <mitch@netside.net>, Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>,
	"'k claffy'" <kc@ipn.caida.org>, nanog@nanog.org, caida@caida.org
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On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Deepak Jain wrote:

> Security is not a once-in-a-while thing. If you allow FTP or POP access to
> the same accounts you deny telnet to, the same alleged sniffers will have
> just as easy a time grabbing anything they'd like off the wire.

I'm looking for ways to secure FTP/POP/IMAP myself, as I agree with
you. (FWIW.)

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