2009/6/28 Polytropon <free...@edvax.de>: > On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:17:11 -0400, Daniel Underwood <djuatde...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Exactly. For example, the "server" in question is a desktop machine >> at work. I regularly see transfer rates of 13MB/s. It's at a major >> university, which is by itself another high-risk factor, precisely >> because there are so many (often weakly protected) high-speed >> connections. > > That's a valid point, and I'd like to add that there is some > consideration: Servers are usually protected with proper means. > This goes especially for UNIX servers. Desktops, on the other > hand, can more easily be taken over (especially non-UNIX machines), > so if an attacker got his foot inside a network, it's very > useful to him. There are even trading platforms where criminals > buy and sell whole networks of compromised PCs. Of course, > everything happening inside such networks should be seen as > what it is: a threat to security. Just imagine some "clever > guy" uses telnet inside such a network to configure the > server... > >
You mean like the default alternative to SSH for "Windows" boxes? Gotta love their arrogance.... Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
