[LINK] Privacy expert advises colleges to bar two popular internet tools

[Ian McKellar]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:57:49PM +1000, Tony Barry wrote:
> 
> PRIVACY EXPERT ADVISES COLLEGES TO BAR TWO POPULAR INTERNET TOOLS
> Colleges should ban telnet and file transfer protocol (FTP)
> because the widely used Internet tools facilitate malicious
> attempts to obtain personal information on campus networks,
> privacy expert Simson L. Garfinkel said on Sunday.

Sadly this is not the case. From what we've seen over the last few days
all ISPs (and universities) should be blocking web access before anything
else :-)

Ian

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