On Jul 26, 2005, at 2:52 PM, David Eisner wrote:
"telnet" . . . That's the same thing as Pine, right?
For me, "telnet" is the same thing as "nethack", because I play on nethack.alt.org and slashem.crash-override.net, the online game servers. (The only problem is that the password is not secure. A monster could steal my account.) I never use telnet for any other purpose.
However, unencrypted IMAP and POP should die. I have exposed my password too many times for forgetting to check that secure checkbox in Thunderbird/Evolution/KMail. I especially dislike that these free mail clients never warn me about sending the unencrypted passwords, even though nice web browsers (Firefox, Konqueror, and also Internet Explorer) do. I guess that most mail client programmers never think about security. It is good that OIT now bans these harmful connections.
I am still using unencrypted SMTP, though, but at least that requires not my password.
- George Koehler
