Re: xterm binary ascii transfer

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:06:10 +0000, Steve Foley wrote:

> Can you please explain why this is so bad, bad, bad?
>
> I could see it being a problem is the telnet port was open to the
> internet, but if it's not, I don't see the problem.

Because the X-windows protocol has "0" security. It can be easily
wiretapped, and it is easy to inject things into the stream. If you want
to make X-windows secure, then you can tunnel it through SSH. But if you
are going to tunnel X, then you might as well just use scp which requires
the same overhead.

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> "Jeff Silverman" <jeffs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message
>> Boy, are you doing things the hard way, and it not only costs you
>> effort, but it makes your system less secure. In short, the way you
>> are doing things now is bad, bad, bad. So stop it, right now. I mean
>> it.

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