I might be wrong, but my first thought was that the original post was made
tongue-in-cheek?
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Clegg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 4:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Telnet vs SSH
Unless the network is lying to me again, Ronneil Camara said:
> You know what guys, right before my naked eyes when I was running ethereal
> for linux, I was doing telnet, ftp, smtp, pop3, and login to yahoo, I saw
my
> full username and password in cleartext in ftp, smtp, pop3 and login to
> yahoo. With the telnet, I opened every telnet packet and concatenated each
> character. I also found out that it was being sent as cleartext.
And this is a new revelation to you?
AlanC
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