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Article #779Re: RFC on my "abuse"
From: Sean Casey
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 04:31
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 04:31
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jona@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Jon Alperin) writes: |Hey..these were .com not .edu sites.....with all the proprietary |and sensitivie information which may be contained therein, some |sites take security to extreme's. Furthermore (if I read the |original post correctly) everytime the script was restarted |it would break in again. I for one would be concerned if I saw |more than 1 attempt to get into my private commercial system. Yes, and all the public info that might be contained therein. Which is the *only* thing an anonymous FTP access would gain. Anonymous FTP doesn't "break in". You either let them in or they don't get in. Many .COM sites have public offerings that aren't available elsewhere, and of those that are duplicated by edu sites, they may be more recent. Sean -- ** Sean Casey <sean@s.ms.uky.edu> ** Recent subject line in comp.sys.handhelds: Printing BIG GROBS
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uunet!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: RFC on my "abuse" Message-ID: <1991Jun26.043154.18765@ms.uky.edu> Date: 26 Jun 91 04:31:54 GMT References: <1991Jun25.154257.7452@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun25.173013.3784@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991Jun25.201915.1434@ms.uky.edu> <1991Jun25.214319.12307@bellcore.bellcore.com> Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 21