Agreed. I think your correct we need to have some level of security ie: we know who's running the redirector.
But whats to stop people from setting up a jabber servers and typing tcpdump in a window next to it. Nothing. Secuirty is a problem in ether approach. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Thomas Parslow (PatRat) Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 6:43 PM To: mitchell balsam Subject: Re[2]: [JDEV] Theoretic.com Now Blocked <snip> > A benifits of the socket redirector apporach is that it should be a > very simple program to setup and run. Very little or no configuration. > Lets get one that can be run on unix, or windows or anything. Think > of them as throwaways, they block one machine, we bring up three more. > I think we want to use the "SETI" online model. Make it trivial to > get on 1000's of machines. <snip> > Rashad That sounds like a major security problem to me, any one of those redirectors would be able to snoop traffic and pick out passwords (I think passwords are sent plain text in AIM/ICQ, is that correct?) Thomas Parslow (PatRat) ICQ #:26359483 Rat Software http://www.rat-software.com/ Please leave quoted text in place when replying _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
