[Coco] Anyone still play text adventure games?

[Sean]

It's generally not good to open portions of your internal network to
the internet.  Much safer to have a separate DMZ network.

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:35 AM, John Kent <jekent at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> That was pretty much my understanding of it too, but I was concerned that if
> I used port forwarding on my router to a specific IP address on the subnet,
> whether there was some way to gain access to my local area network, by
> redirecting packets off the device in some manner say via some other port
> which might be open.
>
> On 25/05/2011 1:18 AM, William Astle wrote:
>>
>> On 2011-05-24 07:17, Tony Cappellini wrote:
>>>
>>> You do realize how easy it is to hack into your server right?
>>> Telnet isn't secure, and should never be used.
>>
>> Okay, that might be overstating things some.
>>
>> Telnet on its own is not necessarily insecure. Having some service that
>> can be accessed via telnet does not magically add security holes. (SMTP,
>> for instance, can be accessed via telnet.)
>>
>> What makes telnet insecure is that there is no encryption on the
>> communication. That simply means it's possible, under the right
>> circumstances, for a third party to sniff the communications and know
>> what you typed and what the server sent you. A modern switched wired
>> network is unlikely to be sniffable but wireless is a different ballgame.
>>
>> In the case of Bedlam, there is no authentication or other sensitive
>> information. Thus, Telnet does not contribute to or detract from the
>> security of the server as a whole.
>>
>> A problem with the coding of the service (the Bedlam implementation in
>> this case) may allow someone access to arbitrary things on the server,
>> but this would still be a problem using SSH or any other means of remote
>> access.
>>
>> Thus, simply having a Bedlam game on port 6809, which one accesses
>> normally using telnet, does NOT make the machine any more inherently
>> hackable than SMTP or SSH or any other "public" service does.
>>
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