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Re: IT security people sleep well


From: "Jeff Shultz" <jeffshultz () wvi com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:26:01 -0700


** Reply to message from Eric Kuhnke <eric () fnordsystems com> on Thu, 03
Jun 2004 13:16:44 -0700


The part about Telnet is truly scary...   Among people who have "clue", 
the biggest reason I have heard to continue running ssh1 is for 
emergency access via hand-held smartphones or other pocket sized 
devices.  The Handspring Treo 180 and similar keyboarded cellphone-pda 
devices don't have the CPU power necessary for a SSH2 key exchange, 
unless I'm drastically mistaken about the FPU abilities of a 33 MHz 
Motorola Dragonball...

I wonder if they asked the people using Telnet if they were using over
the internet - or inside a corporate intranet, shielded from the
outside?

-- 
Jeff Shultz
A railfan pulls up to a RR crossing hoping that
there will be a train. 


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