[Gllug] SFTP Server
David Damerell
damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed Apr 9 14:11:34 UTC 2003
On Wednesday, 9 Apr 2003, Doug Winter wrote:
>Personally I'd say that this doesn't increase security by much in the
>real world. Yes, someone could be sniffing your network, but in reality
>they aren't. Although it's a plausible risk, it's not a high one.
In reality they are. When I was in academentia, at least half the
machines the university had cracked had sniffers installed on
them. Our single biggest incident in the Department I worked in was a
direct result of efficient use of password sniffers.
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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?
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