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Date:      Mon, 6 May 2002 23:03:09 +0200
From:      Borja Marcos <borjamar@sarenet.es>
To:        solarflux@ziplip.com
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Telnet Exploit
Message-ID:  <200205062103.g46L39R3024026@borja.sarenet.es>
In-Reply-To: <135YGUD5H2YCVJ3JLY3L2CMBQCXYNOQCEADYX2T5@ziplip.com>
References:  <135YGUD5H2YCVJ3JLY3L2CMBQCXYNOQCEADYX2T5@ziplip.com>

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On Monday 06 May 2002 21:37, you wrote:
> Why in the world are you using telnetd anyhow?  You should be using SSH=
D
> and never telnetd.  Telnetd should be 'forbidden'...

=09Why? Do you think ssh is more secure? It may not be. Just think about =
the=20
complexity of ssh. It has been hit by a bug in zlib, for example. Or has =
zlib=20
had an audit as strict as ssh?

=09Telnet has its problems, but we should not say that ssh is "more secur=
e"=20
acritically. It is obvious that it has advantages, however.




=09Borja.

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