From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 20 13:50:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.caprice.mb.ca (mail.caprice.mb.ca [205.200.216.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4476E37C17F for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:50:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grub@grub.net) Received: from grub.net (grub.caprice.mb.ca [205.200.216.10]) by mail.caprice.mb.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA22586; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:54:20 GMT (envelope-from grub@grub.net) Message-ID: <397765F0.22CAF0AF@grub.net> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:49:52 -0500 From: Gordon Grieder Organization: /bin/sh X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Ron Smith , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Allowing Hotline Service References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Ron Smith wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for impartial security info on a product called "Hotline" at: > http://cgi.bigredh.com/index2.html. > > I'm trying to decide whether to allow the service through out firewall or > not. Does anyone out there have any experience with this product/service, as > far as the security angle is concerned? > > Ron Smith Ron, et al, The bulk of Hotline use seems to be for warez and mp3 trading. It started out as a Mac-only product that was ported to Windows a few years ago. If you download the client from www.bigredh.com and configure it to use a third party server list (available anywhere) that will confirm what I've said. Gord To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message