On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 11:13:08AM -0800, David Steinberg wrote: > > OTOH, then you have another service running, which makes you that much > more open to being cracked. It's not a bad thing in and of itself, but it > does demand that you keep up to date with security announcements for that > package. > > At least when you're using POP and sending a plain-text password, it's a > password for your ISP's system, not yours. :) ever read the usage contract you have to sign when you get isp service? it basically states YOUR responsible for whatever your account is used for and having your password stolen is no excuse if someone uses to do evil in your name. of course if the password only gets you pop3 access and not dialup or shell or anything else it would probably only get your mail stolen but still. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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