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OpenSSH Gets Even More Suspicious

Posted by timothy on from the mother-may-i dept.

If you remotely administer any computers, or need to check your email over an untrusted network, odds are you're already familiar with the wonders of OpenSSH. Markus Friedl yesterday posted a release announcement for the newest version, OpenSSH 3.3. Privilege separation in OpenSSH is now enabled by default, another sign of the entire OpenBSD project's appropriate paranoia.

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  1. Re:More suspicious of OpenSSH? by neuroticia · · Score: 5, Funny

    I read that too and my mind quickly said to me "Oh great, time to turn off SSH and only allow shell access to people who physically sit down at the computer.

    Then I realized that it's "suspicious" as in "the suspicious wife accused her husband of sneaking another computer into the house" and not "the actions of the husband were suspicious, leading his wife to accuse him of sneaking another computer into the house."

    Should have said "Open SSH has just become even more paranoid."

    THIS is why computers don't speak English. =]

    -Sara