Yeah, I guess you could consider it an aroundabout way
to create a denial of service...though that wasn't the
attacker's intent. It is a wierd situation here in any
case. I am in one building but attached to the department
that resides primarily in a separate building. There
is primarily another department in my building. There
is an IT department in the other building that handles
most aspects of my net access, including mail account.
There is an IT department in the building I am in that
handles most of this building's members (part of another
department).
The local IT guys shake their head when we talk about
the removal of pop and imap as a response to the crack
attempt, realising that it is ridiculous. They are also
trying to clean up the confusing and silly separation of net
service that this "by department" system creates - they
want to control the network and all connections within
this building (I had to go thru the IT dept in the other
building in order to simply get my wall socket activated,
merely requiring a patch cable. The local building IT
guys told me that they weren't allowed to do this simple
thing for me because I was attached to the other
department and they would get into trouble if they added
the patch cable themselves).
I hope they succeed. They will restore my access to
pop and not restrict everyone to M$-only solutions.
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Subject: Re: CitrixICA for linux
Patrick O Neil wrote:
> Someone spent a lot of time trying to guess/crack pop3 passwords.
> Their response was to eliminate pop3 and imap to boot.
So what you're saying is that the cracker perpetrated a successful
long-term denial-of-service attack--with the help of the IT
department.
> In any case, I am stuck with no pop3 nor imap, thus
> I must use Citrix or the web interface.
Or I'd tell 'em that all E-mail is sent to my personal account on my
ISP.
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