On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:36:15PM -0500, Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote: > > Note that other than giving a larger number of people *theoretical* access > to your system, this doesn't do much. They still need to connect over the > standard VNC port as soon as they are served the applet.
It also prevents denial of service attacks (and possibly other attacks) that exploit the HTTP server. Of course, this is just one small part of the nightmare that is VNC security. :-) -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor Alternative Technology, Inc. http://www.alttech.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
