Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings

[Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:11:07PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> > There are also people ssh'ing to personal and corporate machines from
> > the terminal room where the root password is given out or easily
> > available.
>
> Are you saying people shouldn't SSH?

I've seen far too many people get into trouble because they have some
flawed thinking that "ssh == always secure", even against compromises of
one of the endpoints. If root is available, a reasonable person should
ASSUME that some bored individual (like Bandy Rush) has taken 30 seconds
and recompiled the ssh binaries with a password logger. Heck even if it
isn't available, you couldn't pay me enough money to trust public access
terminals to log into something which doesn't use a one-time password.

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