A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, im wondering about the security of telnet - people say its really > unsecure...does this mean that someone would need to be running a > network sniffer on my ip to catch the data?
Yep. Telnet was written back when worrying about people sniffing connections was a non-issue. > I telnet to my ISP from work, (only telnet available) then run SSH > from ISP shell to home machine....is this just as insecure as a > straight connection via telnet right to my home machine? Yep: just as insecure - you don't know who between you and your ISP may be running a packet sniffer. Your only solution (that I know of) is to get your sysadmin at work to unlock port 22 (the port used by ssh) at the firewall (if it's a firewall that's blocking ssh). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstien