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November 17, 2005

Why do people still use plaintext network protocols with networks

While at Supercomputing 2005 I came across a plasma screen with the sniffings of people’s passwords they are transporting over the network in cleartext! Why do people still do this?! The link leads to a realtime update of the passwords being sniffed

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November 17, 2005 08:21 PM | Computing
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Above is what I tried of digg's (http://www.digg.com) feature to link to blog.

Well, my guess is SSH is probably been very common practiced and used. But people don't know scp or sftp, they still use FTP. And POP3....

posted 08:25 PM on November 17, 2005 · comment by yowkee · #

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