From owner-freebsd-security Tue Mar 19 19:58:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-203.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D24A37B405 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 19:58:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from topperwein (topperwein [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2K3wd345366; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:58:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:58:34 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: FreeBSD Security Cc: FreeBSD Security Subject: Re: Safe SSH logins from public, untrusted Windows computers In-Reply-To: <20020319151512.E43336@palomine.net> Message-ID: <20020319225631.Q45274-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Chris Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 03:06:26PM -0500, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Chris Johnson wrote: > > > > > I worry, however, about trojans and keyboard sniffers and what-have-you > > > monitoring my keystrokes, so I don't feel particularly safe doing this. > > > > Get a laptop. > > I've travelled with a laptop for years, and that's what I usually use. But the > hotels I stay in are in all parts of the world, and while we take cheap local > phone access for granted in the U.S., in many countries it's exorbitantly > expensive (the hotels charge a lot for it anyway). And ISPs that have > world-wide dialup access charge by the minute. So Internet cafes and hotel > business centers are frequently the most economical way of connecting to the > Internet. The inet cafés and hotel business centers hook their machines up with a CAT5 cable, do they not? Unless they're smart enough to record the MAC addresses of each NIC in the place, they won't notice your dhclient cycle until you're long gone. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message