Re: IT security people sleep well

From: Jeff Shultz (no email)
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 17:26:01 EDT


** Reply to message from Eric Kuhnke <> on Thu, 03
Jun 2004 13:16:44 -0700

>
> The part about Telnet is truly scary... Among people who have "clue",
> the biggest reason I have heard to continue running ssh1 is for
> emergency access via hand-held smartphones or other pocket sized
> devices. The Handspring Treo 180 and similar keyboarded cellphone-pda
> devices don't have the CPU power necessary for a SSH2 key exchange,
> unless I'm drastically mistaken about the FPU abilities of a 33 MHz
> Motorola Dragonball...

I wonder if they asked the people using Telnet if they were using over
the internet - or inside a corporate intranet, shielded from the
outside?

-- 
Jeff Shultz
A railfan pulls up to a RR crossing hoping that
there will be a train. 







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