Re: [cobalt-security] re: Telnet security

[Paul Gillingwater <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting "William P. N. Smith" <wpns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Which people are those who can sniff your password?  Network
> administrators and such, but how does an 'ordinary' user watch the internet
> promiscuously?

No problem.  They just compromise the servers that sit on the same
segment, connected via Hubs (not switches, which are more difficult
to sniff.)

Another good way to lose your password is to visit an Internet cafe, and use 
TELNET, or be invited to a fake job interview by the FBI, as happened to a 
couple of Russian hackers.

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