[ale] Telnet or SSH? (Was: Re: anonymize google searches and tor for android)

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 19:08:38 EDT 2009


He, he. Skittles. What a great term.


On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:56 PM, J. D. <jdonline at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Short sighted? Absolutely.
>>
>> >
>> > Common practice? Most certainly. The only practice more common is CYA
>> > pertaining to who denied the upgrade that led to the failure event.
>>
>> The commonality of it is saddening.
>>
>> That said, going back to my earlier comment:  Just what sort of sense
>> does it make to enforce the use of sudo, when the rest of the show is
>> woefully insecure anyway?  I mean, it's not like they required the use
>> of one-time-pads with sudo.  Just plain passwords... 8 characters or
>> less.  I think it's hilarious.
>>
>>        --- Mike
>
>
> I spoke with a Redhat field engineer a few years ago. He was quite a
> character. He said they had they had a name for networks that had good
> external security but poor internal. He called them skittles because they
> were hard on the outside but soft and chewy in the center. Not the way to go
> if it can be helped eh?
>
> J. D.
>
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