ntp.... was Re: Fresh rawhide install / AVC messages
Russell Coker
russell at coker.com.au
Sun Mar 14 06:07:08 UTC 2004
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:18, Tom Mitchell <mitch48 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> My concern was the cyber cafe or hotel that a traveling businessman
> encounters. There have already been rumors of bad boys snooping bits
> and doing naughty things in the cyber cafes. DHCP smelled like a
> potential problem where time of day, DNS, SMTP and a list of other
> "important" administrative decisions could be silently co-opted.
Yes, Internet cafe's can break your security in more ways than you want to
imagine. If you don't do certificate checking with SSL then they can just
proxy all connections too...
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