out-of-band access bandwidth

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Tue Jan 27 22:30:54 UTC 2009


Leigh Porter wrote:
> And be careful.. It's easy to have simple local passwords, a dial-in modem
> and then get pwned.. Were I used to be, we had encrypted modems for POP
> dialin.
> 

I have my POTS modem set up to accept PPP too so there's the option of 
being a little more secure than a plain text terminal, assuming the 
world didn't completely blow up.

~Seth




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