Re: NCSA Telnet release announcement

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From: Jim Matthews
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 1989 12:48

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Does Telnet 2.3 still ship with the FTP server enabled and no password
security?  I was quite surprised to learn that running version 2.2 made
it possible for anyone with an FTP client to read the files on my hard
disk and plant viruses in my system folder.  In fact, with enough
naive Telnet users around you could imagine an AppleTalk "worm" program
that ftp'd itself from machine to machine.

Is security in version 2.3 any better?

Jim Matthews
Dartmouth Software Development

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From: matthews@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews)
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Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet release announcement
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Date: 2 Sep 89 12:48:22 GMT
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