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- From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan)
- Subject: Re: GEnie To Internet
- References: <1992Aug28.211232.24798@homebase.vistachrome.com> <1992Aug26.212904.15265@samba.oit.unc.edu> <Btn9nI.My6@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:26:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.211232.24798@homebase.vistachrome.com> andy@homebase.vistachrome.com (Andy Finkenstadt) writes:
- >tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
- >>Are you telling me that GEnie's computers run under UNIX? If they do
- >
- >No, they don't. But GEnie's Internet Gateway machine runs Unix (well,
- >at least it identifies itself with SMTP as an HPUX machine).
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- OK, gotcha.
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- >>not, then what possible effect could any insecurities in a UNIX system
- >>affect GEnie? Don't make the common mistake of assuming that the
- >
- >Believe it or not, by offering the ftp-data port for connection, you
- >open your system up to some little-known security problems.
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- Even if I'm ftping from a VMS host? A VM host? A TOPS-20 host? An Atari
- 800 equipped with an ethernet crd? ;-)
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- >Of course, you don't quite know this - but part of the conference
- >Walt said he might have to rewrite the whole billing thing... you'll
- >see when I post the conference to some newsgroups.
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- I'm looking forward to seeing the transcript.
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