On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 02:13:05PM -0400, Andy wrote:
> Daemeon Reiydelle wrote:
> >
> > This problem is endemic and inherent to ALL cable companies because each
> > segment (more or less a few block radius) is a common subnet.
>
> What about the claim in the article that all one need do is disable
> sharing, or, at least use good passwords on shares. Is this enough?
not likely, it will certainly prevent people just browsing your machine
without knowledge.. but as was noted earlierit takes one guy with a
sniffer and some free time to gather alot of information including emails
and probably the lanman hashes for the passwords on the shares......
assuming they don't just bruteforce the shares... win95 is not secure...
and actually it is a big target on a hostile lan...
//Matt
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