From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 23 10:13:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA5C37B41B for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:13:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.12.2/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2NIDeHT029927 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:13:40 -0800 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.11.6) id g2NIDfF21866; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:13:41 -0800 Message-Id: <200203231813.g2NIDfF21866@shell1.aracnet.com> Subject: Re: So long and thanks for all the fish [telnet vs ssh] To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:13:41 -0800 (PST) From: "Seagull" In-Reply-To: <20020323025138.G59417-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> from "Peter Leftwich" at Mar 23, 2002 03:06:17 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > Long story short. Workplaces that use *hubs* for their LAN are icky and > promiscuous. They pimp out your ehternet adapter ("NIC"). Workplaces that > use *switches* are loverly. Security is your buhhhhh-dee. But don't be lulled into a false sense of security in a switched environment. There's nothing to prevent someone from attaching a hub in an unsuspecting cow-orker's office and sniffing from there. A lot of companies hide network drops under desks, behind furniture, etc. for asthetic reasons. It's real easy to hide a hub and a network cable without anyone ever knowing. And in some of the offices I've seen, you could probably hide a working laptop for a couple of days, too. Use as much security as your business conditions allow. Cheers, John -- \ carpe cavy! seagull @ aracnet.com \ http://www.aracnet.com/~seagull \ (seize the guinea pig!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message