Salut,
have to sell what their customers want and that is usability, not security. If
we ship with security, but not as a default, it's a add-on.
if users use unencrypted traffic it's their fault.
Yes, Thomas, but you have to admit that they simply do not know what they are
we have a chapter about security in our handbook. if a user reads it, s/he will know telnet is bad.
doing. Did you ever try to explain cryptography to a secretary? If you would
only an idiot would do. ;)
rename ssh to telnet, most users would not ever notice, I bet :-) !
No! another port, another behavior, windows has telnet but not ssh by default.
Hrhr... 'secure by default' nice buzzwords.
Oh, and by the way, "secure by default" or better "failsafe defaults" is not a
failsafe is even more complicated... Bye, Thomas -- Thomas Biege, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaeckerstr. 10, 90443 Nuernberg E@mail: thomas@suse.de Function: Security Support & Auditing "lynx -source http://www.suse.de/~thomas/thomas.pgp | pgp -fka" Key fingerprint = 09 48 F2 FD 81 F7 E7 98 6D C7 36 F1 96 6A 12 47