Kyle Burton on Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:01:39 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] Microsoft Striks Again


Uh, isn't POP cleartext based?  If it crosses a network between two machines,
then someone can snoop/sniff your whole session.

telnet to port 110 on your favorite pop3 server, and you can engage into
an interactive session with it -- including logging in and reading your mail


if you need to know how to talk to a POP server, you can find the RFC for
it somewhere on the net...

k


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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Nick R wrote:

> Outside of social engineering and brute force crack attempts how's this so 
> w/ POP3?
> 
> 
> >From: Morgan Wajda-Levie <mpwl@locke.ccil.org>
> >Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> >To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> >Subject: Re: [Plug] Microsoft Striks Again
> >Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 07:12:16 -0500
> >
> >On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 10:20:02PM -0400, Andy Bradley wrote:
> > > http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/30/hotmail.06/
> >
> >The only problem I have with this and a lot of other coverage of the
> >cracking is that it makes the assumption that e-mail normally is
> >secure.  The hotmail cracking makes things a lot easier, but reading
> >other people's e-mail is still a juvenile task, as is faking their
> >address.  That's what pgp is for.
> >
> >--
> >Morgan Wajda-Levie
> >http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev
> >PGP fingerprint:
> >A353 C750 660E D8B6 5616  F4D8 7771 DD21 7BF6 221C
> >http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev/public.asc for PGP key
> >encrypted mail preferred
> ><< attach3 >>
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