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* Robert Boyle <[email protected]> [2004-06-07 14:08]: > I really truly don't see the problem with plaintext telnet > management of routers. It is exactly this belief in the security of your networks that gets this industry in so deep shit. ever heard of multilayer security? some little problem somewhere that allows an attacker to sniff your telnet traffic and you are d00med. that might be as simple as a routing fuckup. You loose nothing with using ssh instead of telnet. You win a lot. ssh is a basic component for secure network management. it is not the one magic piece that turns a collection of crap into an ubersecure network of course, as some people seem to imply. not seeing the problem with cleartext telnet for remote logins in 2004, wether ACL'd or not, is just ... oh man, I don't have words for this. -- Henning Brauer, BS Web Services, http://bsws.de [email protected] - [email protected] Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
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