Re: Putty

In a message dated 8/20/01 8:26:15 AM GMT Daylight Time, pod(at)null.net writes:

> Your ISP is quite correct in shutting off telnet, albeit a few years behind 
>  schedule. I wrote a password sniffer for one of my university classes, and 

Really must find one of these and see it in action.  I need something to 
scare me into using more secure technologies  :-)  

>  when you see how simple it is to do and how well it works, you'll never 
use 
>  plain text passwords again. This applies to telnet, pop3, ftp, web.

So what's the alternative to POP3 and FTP?

Thanks,
Peter.

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