On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:53:16 GMT, Alan Connor wrote:
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>
> Duh, you can't sniff anything if you aren't on the network in question.

Well duuuh, nobody, but nobody said anything to indicate that.
Seems you did not understand "both ends of the connection".

>
> Like I said, been using telnet and ftp, client and server, since I first
> used Linux. So have millions of others. The fact that there are so many
> ftp servers out there, with their IP addresses available on google, that
> allow anonymous logins, ought to tell an intelligent person something.

Yeah, millions of people do not have car accidents either. Wonderful
logic there.

>
> I'm not, and I'm not going to be.

Nobody told you to be paranoid.


> You can be what you want. But my experience is that the people who go on
> and on about security are the ones that you have to watch.
> They are projecting and giving themselves away.


Some more of that wonderful logic there.

Using google with *linux* in the news group box
and in the first box

help my box cracked
Results 1 - 10 of about 641. Search took 3.18 seconds

help my box hacked
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,730. Search took 3.57 seconds.

Yes lots of the hits are because of replies. I guess it must
be viruses.