Subj : Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
To   : Digital Man
From : Time Warrior
Date : Tue Jun 21 2005 07:58 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Digital Man
  Re: Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
  By: Digital Man to Time Warrior on Tue Jun 21 2005 05:53 pm

 > To: Time Warrior
 > Re: Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo By: Time Warrior to Deuce on Tue Jun 21
 > 2005 07:39 am

 >  >  >  > Well, being an external protocol, one would presume it's seperate a
 >  >  >  > "talks to" the protocol to tell it "these are the files i want to u
 >  >  >  > tells it where to place the downloaded files :-)

 >  >  >  > ... and you said SyncTERM didn't support external protocols. Seems
 >  >  >  > ONE at least :-) As far as being faster than FTP or not, I wouldn't
 >  >  >  > first hand. Thats where the "i've heard" and "I haven't been follow
 >  >  >  > closely" comes into play :-)

 >  >  >  > I also was unaware that NTP had any security holes. What is / are t
 >  >  >  > if you don't mind me asking?

 >  >  > SyncTERM suppots NTP as well as it supports you using Internet Explore
 >  >  > browsing.  That is to say that one has nothing to do with the other.
 >  >  > client merely sits there and accepts any file sent to it.  This, of co
 >  >  > the security hole.

 >  > Ah, the lack of authentication. No way of saying "Only this BBS Software
 >  > that BBS Software has access to do this" ... any tom, dick or harry can
 >  > upload / download anything to / from anywhere.

 >  > I get it.

 > Apparently you don't. The NTP client accepts connections from *any host*. It
 > has nothing to do with which "software" has access to do what.

Isn't that what I just said?


Emphasised recap:

Ah, the LACK OF AUTHENTICATION. NO WAY OF saying "Only this BBS Software
that BBS Software has access to do this" ... ANY TOM, DICK OR HARRY can
upload / download anything to / from ANYWHERE.

"lack of authentication" is another way of saying "accepts connections from 
*any host* just as "any tom, dick or harry" means it does NOT have anything 
to do with "which software" has access to what.

So how did I not only NOT understand as well as supposedly NOT say the same 
thing you did, only in a bit of a different way?

I'm curious.

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