Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 35138
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2004/12/1-2 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:35138 Activity:nil
11/30   I've heard that finger is a security hazard, but it would seem to me
        that any well-written finger would be at most  a DOS liability.  Why
        do many institutions of all sorts either run no finger daemon or
        block it at the firewall?
        \_ Well, one obvious reason is it can give away information that can
           be used for social engineering attacks.
           \_ Not to mention simple email/login harvesting for brute force
              attacks and spammers.  -John
           \_ So can personal webpages.
              \_ False analogy.  You control 100% of all info on your pubhtml
                 dir.  You do not have this control over your finger info
                 on all systems.
                 \- There is a discussion of "amplification" DoS attacks
                    using finger at: http://csua.org/u/a5q --danh
                 \_ But the fact that there is a page at <DEAD>csua.berkeley<DEAD>
                    .edu/~foo implies that foo@csua.berkeley.edu is a valid
                    e-mail address.
                    \_ I think the parent post was referring to the fact that
                       it's your choice to create a public_html directory
                       at all.
                       \_ I see.
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