On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:02:17AM +0800, william villanueva wrote: > Hello Dido, > > On Monday, September 15, 2003 1:18 PM, you wrote: > > > Uninstall these packages NOW. And FAST. And install OpenSSH > > instead. Telnet and FTP are among the most dangerous and > > worthless protocols on the planet as of now. Don't even think > > about using them in the future. > > Should one worry much about this if its an internal network? I was in > St. Luke's late last night and I was checking out their online billing > system. Seems that it has quit its program and was toying with it. > They are using Reflection to connect to their main server via telnet. > > I think MWSS is also using Reflection to connect to their server to > access the accounts.
Read our previous posts to see why this is a bad idea. Internal networks cannot be trusted, especially at a large business such as a hospital where many people may have access to the network. Unfortunately, SSH seems to remain in the realm of the Free software world, and many proprietary Unix vendors don't understand it, don't know about it, or are afraid of it. Any time you see reflection used, it's probably connecting to a SCO box. The people who set those sorts of things up are typically afraid of us (think about it, what kind of moron would pay for a telnet client?). Anyway, don't use Telnet and FTP, even if internally. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
