From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 21:34:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FCB537B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:34:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from samuelstn.dyndns.org (h24-64-81-248.cg.shawcable.net [24.64.81.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BCA2443E65 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:34:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cyschow@shaw.ca) Received: (qmail 41679 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2002 04:34:19 -0000 Received: from intelex (192.168.1.5) by homeserver with SMTP; 25 Jul 2002 04:34:19 -0000 Message-ID: <000a01c23394$8af25970$0501a8c0@intelex> From: "Samuel Chow" To: "Grant Cooper" Cc: References: <000001c23388$a1c00500$0a01a8c0@MIKESBOX> <002901c2338c$3709eab0$2afececd@TCOOPER> Subject: Re: Watching users Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:34:19 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Cooper" > You know what, as soon as you say your a newbie on this list your bound to > be attacked. After advertising my domain I was flooded with anonymous ftp, > telnet. This is a perfect place for BHH (Black Hat Hackers) to find newbies > to compromise and teach a lesson about security. How fun. :) > > P.S. hehe, I was under the impression that SSH was suppose to be a secure > shell. I will stick with the old FTP. If you are allowing anonymous ftp only, you are fine. Otherwise; your password is traveling the Internet in plaintext. That probably is not what you want. --- Samuel Chow cyschow@shaw.ca Segmentation Fault (core dumped) This message is displayed using recycled electrons. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message