pine

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of RW
>Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 6:08 PM
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Cc: caleb
>Subject: Re: pine
>
>

>> 'Can't do secure authentication with this server'
>
>If the server supports neither ssl, nor any form secure 
>authentication, there 
>nothing you can do to protect your password.

Garbage.

The first thing you can do is go out and shoo the crackers
off the telephone pole who are tapped into your phone line
and sniffing your passwords.

Then you can ask your ISP to start locking the door to his
NOC and kick out all the crackers who have sleeping bags in
the NOC and are tapped into the ISP's ethernet cable from his
router to his mail server.

But the thing that would probably put your mind at ease the most
is to stop going to Hollywood movies like The Net which make it appear
as though crackers can magically sniff your cleartext passwords
when they have access to the network between your
PC and the ISP's mailserver.

Ted