[P1] Mail question

Zoki zoki.news at linuxix.net
Fri Feb 13 05:42:00 PST 2004


Le 10/02/2004 21:00, « Tom R. no spam » <tr5374 at csc.albany.edu> a écrit :

> DO NOT use telnet unless you want your username and password
> to be known to anyone who happens to be listening to the
> traffic on any route your messages take to the ISP.  Use SSH
> instead.  If your ISP can't work with SSH, ask them how they
> recommend to make a secure connection with them.


*** In this case the ISP can't even figure out how to make their machines
run at all. And I have to come upon a ISP who will bother installing ssh.
For whom? Most of his clients are using Windows machines which - after so
many years - still don't have a ssh client by default.

I think you're frightening people without reason...

-- 
Cheers,
Zoran.

If C lets you shoot yourself in the foot, C++ lets you blow your whole leg
off.
  -- Bjarne Stroustrup



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