Linux Journal: cat /dev/DiBona/brain: What About E-mail Security?

“Ever used driftnet? I go to a lot of conferences, and one thing
I find myself doing while speaking is checking how engaged the
audience is by sniffing the 802.11b traffic in the room. Whether
this is a measure of how absorbing I am or, to put it delicately,
how self-absorbed the conference attendee is, is an open question.
That said, it always is surprising to me how little encrypted
traffic is flowing on the very open Internet.

“Does anyone use Telnet anymore? I hope not. We have better
tools now; SSH and SCP are the way most sane people hop around
systems on which they might have accounts. In addition, the days of
unreliable and patent-encumbered SSH are gone, and we now have the
luxury of using OpenSSH for shelling around…”

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