17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Sep 12, 2:47pm, Adam Shostack wrote:
The way thinnet ethernet works, all machines on the net will probably see all packets going to/from any of them.
All machine on the same PHYSICAL network will. If the university is worried about password sniffing, they should put the machine on a bridged ethernet segment. If they're really concerned, give them their own subnet and apply an appropriate routing policy. This is not difficult.
The way telnet works has no encryption in it; the password you type gets sent across the network as you type it. This is barely even a secret anymore.
It never was a secret. Ian.