I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

Richard Vickery richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 20:25:51 UTC 2013


On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Nathan McCrina <nfm at sprawl2kxx.net> wrote:

> On 03/21/2013 04:05 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
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>> Question: Clouds are insecure, are they not? Any person with the intent,
>> and a Linux computer, has the ability to sniff passwords and other
>> "private" information, doesn't s/he? Isn't this what made us so good
>> before Microsoft came into the picture. Are Clouds not a "cracker's" -
>> as opposed to hackers who do not have criminal intent - haven?
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> Well, the idea of SSL is that you can capture all the packets you want,
> but you won't be able to read the information in the packets without the
> key to decrypt it. Or lots of supercomputers and several centuries of free
> time.
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Oh, okay. And the key doesn't get transferred with the data? I'm curious
because of safety issues I have with things like wireless banking, internet
banking and the Android banking apps.
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