Re: xterm binary ascii transfer

I've always gone under the assumption that if the system was not physically
secured, there's not much point in securing the network.

These workstations are on the shop floor, accessable to anyone inside the
building. Why bother wiretapping the network when you can walk over to a
workstation and get whatever you need?


"Jeff Silverman" <jeffs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.01.11.07.21.58.92835@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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.
>
> >
> >
> > "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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