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Remote login from Finder
And then again, who cares if the Finder connection is secure for an PowerPoint file? There are good times to be paranoid, and times where it's just silly.
Remote login from Finder
Well, i certainly care if i send my ip address, username and password in the clear on an open network. who could ask for a better invitation to screw with you? seriously, it's not about what you're using it for, but how you use it. i suppose if there's nothing on your machine that you care about, fine, but the "nobody's interested in my data" argument will get you every time. as a personal example, i connected a linux server appliance to the world, with nothing on it save the os at that point, and it was broken into the next day.
Remote login from Finder
as a personal example, i connected a linux server appliance to the world, with nothing on it save the os at that point, and it was broken into the next day.
Out of curiosity, how were you able to tell that this had happened?
Remote login from Finder
The concern isn't the files getting stolen, its the username and password. If I send my password and username around in clear text, someone needs only to sniff those packets, and break into the machine. They don't care about the file I transferred, they care about the password. Once they have a login name and password, they can do quite a bit of nasty stuff. And don't think that just because no one knows your IP address that you are safe, port scanners sit around scanning entire subnets, just hunting for computers to potentially exploit. |
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