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Subject: Re: Screend & ftp
From: Frank Wortner <frank @ prodigy . com>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 10:13:17 -0500 (EST)
To: Firewalls <firewalls @ greatcircle . com>
In-reply-to: <199503300237 . SAA03873 @ mycroft . GreatCircle . COM>

On Wed, 29 Mar 1995 smb @
 research .
 att .
 com wrote:

> I can't give you exactly what you want, but looking at the title of
> CERT advisories is informative (note, though, that you should disrgard
> the tftp entries):
> 
> [Large list of CERT Advisories about FTP deleted]

As in everything in life, you have to weigh the risks against the
benefits.  Despite this list of problems, huge numbers of sites still
allow various flavors of FTP access.  Most of them believe that they are
secure, and some of them *might* actually be justified in that belief. 
;-)

					Frank

--
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend;
 inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."  -- Groucho Marx




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