On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Jason Gauthier wrote:
> Many people use mud clients... this is true. Mud client use telnet.
> telnet is a very insecure protocol.. A real quick way to get immortal access
> on a mud.
Are there people out there who still waste their time DOING this? *sigh*
Y'all need to take a BIG lesson in growing up...
> One reason I wouldn't have my mud hosted on a server I couldn't at least
> have some control over is because of this. Maybe I'm slightly paranoid, but
> there are many people who are not trustworthy, and throwing the NIC in
> promiscous mode and grabbing a few player/immortal passwords would be like
> taking candy from a baby.
Except for the fact that you have to be root to "throw the NIC in
promiscuous mode" - and if you're on a shared hosting server, chances that
some other pimply-faced dipshit teenager has root access on the box (who
CARES enough to waste his time sniffing traffic), would IMHO, be small.
Maybe I'm wrong, and the entire mud hosting community out there consists
of pimply-faced teenagers who have nothing better to do than sniff network
traffic and find out other people's IMM passwords... How sad.
> I would love to use SSH instead.
It's just a game. Distinctly different from compromising the entire
server.
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Dominic J. Eidson
"Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!" - Gimli
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