VanLUG Email Archive
Vincent Janelle (malokai@gildea.net)
Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:10:13 -0800 (PST)
Using tcp_wrappers isn't going to protect your un-encrypted data. Its
meant to be able to stop connections to open services from people that
shouldn't be trying to connect to them.
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Ya`akov N Miles wrote:
> For an experiment, I just did a "tcpdump -i eth1" and noticed somebody
> else's FTP data packets. I complained to Telus, and they said that
> ADSL was not secure against this kind of packet sniffing, so...
> I have had Telus for about six months and am using ssh (just in case).
> All my ports have TCP-wrappers on them and "/etc/hosts.deny" has "all:all"
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