Interesting ....

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Sat Jul 5 15:18:29 PDT 2008


On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Ben Duncan <bend at linux4ms.net> wrote:
> I have telnet and FTP service turned up on this workstation.
> It is behind a firewall with Port Forwarding and secured with
> wrappers/chains so ONLY my clients (Who have all static IP's)
> can get in. All things are set up VERY secure and in 10 years
> on various customer's servers this has yet to be hacked.
> There are other settings , but I am not gonna give my secrets away.

There's nothing secure about FTP or telnet.  You're fooling yourself
if you think that any part of this setup is the least bit secure.


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