July 14, 2000
Privacy Expert Advises Colleges to Bar 2 Popular Internet Tools
An expert on computer security and privacy has warned colleges against continuing to use two popular Internet tools -- telnet and file-transfer protocol -- because they send the user's password unencrypted across the network. Intruders can easily steal unencrypted passwords and use them for breaking into campus-network accounts and gaining access to personal data.
Simson L. Garfinkel, author of Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century, gave the keynote address at
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