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From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.periphs,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Terminal Servers?
Summary: Security and Termservers
Message-ID: <483@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 12:36:16 GMT
References: <147@iquery.UUCP> <12380@cup.portal.com> <689@hscfvax.harvard.edu> <280@wubios.wustl.edu>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <280@wubios.wustl.edu>, phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) writes:
> and what about the security implications when these devices reboot over the
> network?  What keeps some charlatan from providing an "improved" set of
> definitions which destroys any secuity constraints which you have carefully
> provided?  Forcing a device to reboot is frequently the easiest threat to
> execute.

There is no such thing as security and networks.  There are enough
holes in UNIX that you should not worry about this little one...

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