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From: stev@VAX.FTP.COM
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Subject: Re: anonymous ftp, and the dangers thereof
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Date: 5 Jun 90 19:16:59 GMT
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*>Ah yes, good old security-through-obscurity.  Where have we heard that
*>before?
*
*And it doesn't work.  Never has, never will.  The only people that you
*will catch by this are the people too lazy to be inventive.  And those
*are the people least likely to crack your system anyway.

i know alot of people who have used the ITS systems at MIT. i never recall
them telling me of problems with people "breaking in" and damaging
something. what security ITS had was based on obsurity. i would like to hear
from some of the ITS wizards about how security-through-obscurity wrked for
them. 


*>If OSI is the answer, what on
*>Earth could be the question??
*
it is a very stupid question . . .. ..