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Re: IT security people sleep well

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henning Brauer)
Mon Jun 7 15:54:23 2004

Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 21:52:01 +0200
From: Henning Brauer <hb-nanog@bsws.de>
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* Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com> [2004-06-07 21:40]:
> which is why I am 
> against running ssh AND leaving it open to the world

the only one who talks about that is you.

> >You loose nothing with using ssh instead of telnet.
> >You win a lot.
> I agree 100%. However, is that worth $x thousand more per IOS image? Maybe. 

not the point - cisco is to blame for that.

> Should it be included by default, yes.

that is the entire point.

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