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Re: [Plug] Microsoft Striks Again
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That is why I ssh to my server and read the mail in pine. I dont think
there is any securety holes, esp with qmail.
--
-Rune
Einsteins theory of Relativity mean that no matter what direction you go
in life you have a relative that has a theory...
In the Depths of the minds of the insane Fantasy and Reality are the
same...
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Jason S. wrote:
:Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:24:44 -0400 (EDT)
:From: Jason S. <jason@sn.com>
:Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:Subject: Re: [Plug] Microsoft Striks Again
:
:Run a packet sniffer on a box on you local lan with an interface in
:pomisc mode, capture port 110, tcp and jot down everyones
:username/password and read their mail while they retrieve it.
:
:Its not overly hard in that situation. POP, and SMTP are clear text,
:and wide open for sniffing.
:
:J.
:
:When I grow up, I wanna be more like me.
:I had a clue. I didn't like it. I took it back and exchanged it for an
:attitude.
:
: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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