Anyone running MindTerm under Fedora?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Aug 9 15:17:26 UTC 2007
Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
>> First of all, am I right in thinking that if I was successful
>> I could go into an internet cafe and browse for
>> <http://www.myserver.com/mindterm/>
>> and this would be the same as making an ssh connection
>> to my home computer from a remote machine?
>
> I have never run it, but the scenario you mention is pretty scary, I
> would never type any credentials of any kind into a {keylogger with a PC
> wrapped around it} in an Internet cafe, let alone login ones.
>
> Unless you are visiting a country where it just doesn't exist, you are
> much more secure using ssh on your own device on someone else's wifi,
> paying for the privilege as necessary.
>
> If for some reason a laptop isn't possible, you can use ssh with those
> little Nokia N770/N800 things which have wifi.
I have to agree with the comment about typing passwords on unknown
equipment, but if you want to do this, there is a java applet for
telnet/ssh included in webmin.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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