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From: jmcarli@PacBell.COM (Jerry M. Carlin)
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Subject: Re: RFC on my "abuse"
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.204117.20445@PacBell.COM>
Date: 25 Jun 91 20:41:17 GMT
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In article <1991Jun25.201915.1434@ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>What he did was analogous to using a company phone to call up people
>and ask if they offer any free software. That's what the "anonymous"
>FTP login is for...

The key difference is what someone does when they get on. I've seen
unfriendly uses of anonymous ftp such as attempting to delete files and
snarf ~ftp/etc/passwd (hoping that ftp had been set up wrong).

Of course, the same script could be used to try telnet with such things as
'root' as the ID which is something almost completely different.

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