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Re: Sender Spoofing via SMTP


From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:48:58 +0100

On 2005-11-05 Pranav Lal wrote:
Why not disable telnet?

Because that doesn't solve the problem. You could restrict access to the
telnet executable for normal users (I'd recommend against deleting it,
because it is a useful tool for network troubleshooting), but they still
could use a statically linked executable instead. Problems like this are
best addressed on the server, not on the clients.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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