Re: news story and router passwords

[Mark Teicher <mark.teicher () NETWORKICE COM>]

Andy,

Sarcasm in Security, unheard of.. :)

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On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Talisker wrote:

> Mark
> Firstly I apologise if my reply seemed at all condescending, I thought you
> meant it when you said you didn't know much about SNMP,  I thought Americans
> hadn't discovered sarcasm yet ;o)  (tongue in cheek)
> It has been my experience that your average sys admin has a tendancy to
> ignore the possible vulnerabilities introduced by SNMP v2  (same applies to
> databases, routers and webservers)  Therefore I would err on the side of
> caution when using it for security
>
> Andy
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