Re: POP3 passwords

[Phillip McCollum <pmccollum () sanmanuel com>]

<<I forgot to hit the Reply All on this one.. Sorry about that!>>

Well with DOCSIS, the chances of being sniffed are pretty much 
moot.  Here's a good paper:

http://www.sans.org/rr/papers/26/623.pdf

HTH,
Phillip

At 09:22 AM 10/20/2003, you wrote:

> Broadband like a cable modem, on the other hand, is indeed wide open.  Why
> it's not such a big problem, I don't know.  Perhaps the miscreants are
> having more fun examining unprotected local shares on windows boxes, and
> just stealing the Outlook PST files directly.
>
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> "Zachary Mutrux" <zmutrux () compumentor org>
> 10/17/2003 06:40 PM
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> Why has it not been a bigger problem that POP3 passwords are unencrypted
> when sent over the public Internet? Seems like they would be pretty easy
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> a miscreant to steal.
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> zm
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