Re: [vox] password stolen at linuxworld

["Micah J. Cowan" <MAPSmicah@cowan.name>]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 04:26:57AM -0700, Ryan Castellucci wrote:
> I suspect that my password was either sholder surfed (unlikely, it'd be hard 
> to memorize....) or someone was runnning man-in-the-middle attacks, and 
> forced an SSHv1 session to prevent a warning, simply prompting for a new key.

How would this be a vulnerability? I know that SSHv1 had some security
flaws, but the only ones I remember reading about were pretty tough to
successfully exploit.

Were you using a computer you owned? If not, it seems that by far the
most likely explanation would be a planted keystroke-recorder on the
client. If you were, think about whether anyone had access to it. Was
there *anything* you would have transmitted in the clear? *Exactly*
how did you access the server?

My sympathies
-Micah
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