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Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage



"Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> writes:

> On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 14:11 GMT, Wayne Topa penned:
>> 
>> If you add set pop_host=pop.gmx.net, set pop_user=xxxxxxx and set
>> pop_pass=????  to your .muttrc then   mutt -f pop://  will connect
>> without typeing so much.  :-)
>> 
>> This works in version 1.5.4-1 (testing) as well....
>> 
>> Isn't linux neat!!
>
> Of course, your password will then be in plain-text in a file.  If you
> are the only person with root access, this probably isn't a big deal
> until your box gets hacked, but this sort of thing always gives me the
> willies.

Hmmm... If your box gets cracked, the cracking party can simply run a
keylogger and watch you as you type your passwords...

Bijan
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Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>
http://www.crasseux.com



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