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Subject: Re: Java and HotJava security issues
From: Mark <mark @ lochard . com . au>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 18:02:58 +1000 (EETDT)
To: george @ cii . StarPower . Com
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <9506072005 . AA15741 @ StarPower . Com> from "george @ cii . StarPower . Com" at Jun 7, 95 04:05:25 pm

>To one of our junior sales staff:-
>
>Please enter your password to see a (fill in the blanks).  Followed
>by sending the password, login name and machine to me.  
>
>Other attacks, like creating a .rhost file become (at the best) a
>social engineering problem.  And perhaps it can be done directly.

I prefer the:

Open a socks/proxy  connection thru the firewall to my listener and start a
PPP link from the internal PC and attached to a virtual interface on my
external machine. Send me email so I can then telnet into your nets.
Whilst sipping my hot java.

What firewall.

Mark


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