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Re: mail port [Off Topic]
On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Alec H. Peterson wrote:
> Kluge writes:
> >
> >It's very easy to send 'anonymous' email via port 25. You aren't
> >supposed to do it, however, any user can. It is very easily trackable
> >however...
>
> Also, it becomes even harder if any of these
> users have access to cron/at, making it possible to run the job
> virtually any time without being logged in.
>
I have to agree with this. If you have access to any type of terminal
which allows you to telnet without logging in first it makes it almost
impossible to trace. Another way to do it is if you first have to go
into a DOS based system before your UNIX system all you have to do is get
a copy of the telnet files and modify them a bit and you can go directly
to port 25 without logging into any system. The best they will be able
to do is track it to a specific computer but as in any large network just
about anyone could have been using that machine. IT is impossible to
track down the person.
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