Re: telnet vs ssh [WAS: Re: Dropping telnetd and rsh* for security reasons?]
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On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 05:35:10PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> That's probably why Baloo is so angry: dealing with script kiddies
> coming from networks who's admins said "oh, well, telnet is
> convienent, and it'll be okay" gets tiresome.
Yup, pretty much. And lately, there's been from what I can tell a
Portland script kiddie that's been exploiting machines mostly around
town but sometimes abroad or across the country that run telnetd to
harass furnet IRC and DOS both that network and me. I have plenty
good reason for kililng off this dinosaur: It's dangerous.
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.''`. Baloo Ursidae <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
: :' : proud Debian admin and user
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`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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