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Date:      Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:09:59 +0100
From:      Benjamin Lutz <mail@maxlor.com>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Cc:        Chris Palmer <chris@noncombatant.org>
Subject:   Re: OPIE considered insecure
Message-ID:  <200903021410.00093.mail@maxlor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090302021415.GU5602@noncombatant.org>
References:  <20090302021415.GU5602@noncombatant.org>

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On Monday 02 March 2009 03:14:15 Chris Palmer wrote:
> Why are people logging into their remote servers from
> assumed-untrustworthy clients at all?

Because the inconvience of not using whatever service or data the server is 
providing is considered greater than the security risk.

Cheers
Benjamin



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