Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 21:41 GMT, Bijan Soleymani penned:
> "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
Sure. Once your box is cracked, you're pretty much SOL. The specifics
are academic.
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monique
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