I agree with you on principle, but even on a local LAN there are people who do strange things. I generally have telnet and ftp open on my laptop, not so much because of speed, but because there may not be an SSH environment where I take it, but there is generally nothing on my laptop that is sacred. Before I go to class, I put my slides up on my public web site. On 16 Jul 2002 at 18:07, Anders Johansson wrote:
Unencrypted transmissions are significantly faster than their unencrypted counterparts, and on a local lan, protected by firewalls and whatnot, where you have root control of all systems, you really don't need encrypted transmisisons. You'd have to be rooted to be vulnerable, and then the damage is already done.
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