Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpb!nevin1 From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Security checkup Keywords: security intruder self-help Message-ID: <8914@ihlpb.ATT.COM> Date: 11 Oct 88 22:59:24 GMT References: <167@carpet.WLK.COM> <1454@lznv.ATT.COM> <1834@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <2985@mipos3.intel.com> <1458@lznv.ATT.COM> Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpb.UUCP (55528-Liber,N.J.) Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 22 In article <1458@lznv.ATT.COM> ziegler@lznv.ATT.COM (J.ZIEGLER) writes: |What I said was simply that |news postings and email are inappropriate places for discussing |security. And in the same article, he writes: | 2) Such communications methods are not secure, and | correct information could be modified in transit | such that the recipient is not getting valid | advice, but is being misled. This sounds like a security problem. Why did you post it to the net?? Aren't you going against your own advice?? Seems a bit ironic, doesn't it? -- _ __ NEVIN J. LIBER ..!att!ihlpb!nevin1 (312) 979-4751 IH 4F-410 ' ) ) "I catch him with a left hook. He eels over. It was a fluke, but there / / _ , __o ____ he was, lying on the deck, flat as a mackerel - kelpless!" / (_