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From: Dean Phillips <deanphillips@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [security] Re: Safe SSH logins from public, untrusted Windows computers
To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>,
	Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>
Cc: Mitch Collinsworth <mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
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Carefull out there.  I don't think David meant to
advocate hooking your computer up to someone else's
network without the network owner's permission.

I don't know anyplace where it is legal to do that. 
It is better to risk having to fly home early and
reload a machine than to have a criminal record.

Dean M. Phillips

--- David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> wrote:
> 
> You'd probably find that all those hotels are using
> some form of
> ethernet to connect their machine.  If they're on a
> single dialup per
> machine, you can hack the windoze password and then
> use it.  Simply
> connect the network connection to your laptop when
> you sit down.
> 
> You can't to trusted work on an untrusted machine. 
> This is the
> problem that the music/content industry is facing. 
> There are things
> you can do that surf the law of averages --- like
> using s/key.  The
> argument there is that what you're doing is unusual
> enough that the
> hacker will pick on easier prey.
> 
> Dave.
> 
> -- 
>
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> |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications.       | Two
> things can only be     |
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> equal if and only if they |
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> are precisely opposite.  |
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