On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:18:37PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> If this machine is in your home *and* your internet connection is via
> intermittent dial-up with dynamic IP adressing, I say no big deal.
> If you have persistant internet connection (via LAN, xDSL, Cable) your
> risk goes way up.
Quite true.
> In order for this "security hole" to be exploited someone needs to
> have shell access to your machine (by remote exploit or sniffing user
> passwords from telnet, pop, and othe rplain text methods).
Just how bad is it to fetch mails from a POP3 account right
'through' the Internet?
(By that I mean having Inet connectivity at some (cable) provider
and polling a mail account at some other provider, therefore passing
various routers / gateways along the way)
Regards
Sven
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"We will run this with the same kind of openness we have run Windows,"
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