On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 12:22:08AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> It would make sense except that the last time someone tried, some people
> complained that it made it too easy to sniff passwords etc.
Ok, so how about making it a compile time option, turned off by default?
That way, you have to recompile it from source. I suppose it's a little
bit of "security through obscurity", though.
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