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From: frank@hpwrce.HP.COM (Frank Stutzman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PCNFS and security
Message-ID: <7330001@hpwrce.HP.COM>
Date: 26 May 89 16:37:28 GMT
References: <2373@daimi.dk>
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> This issues an even bigger problem with networking. It is possible
> to tap the communication between machines. Unless everything is encrypted
> with the correct password, it is infact public.

Phoey.  Of course anyone with a good lan analyzer is able to intercept 
any packets on the network and read them.  The question is wether or not
its worth the effort.  A good analyzer is an expensive piece of equipment 
that the average joe is not going to have lying around.  If you have to 
worry about this, you shouldn't have a lan at all.

I realize this this is a big drift off of pc-nfs, but hey, a statement like
that I couldn't let slip by.


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