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Having your password in some IRC channel gets remotely exploitable quickly.
by blattimwind 9y ago
Having your password in some IRC channel gets remotely exploitable quickly.
- floatboth 9y agoIf you reused the password, yeah, instant pwnage everywhere. If your local account password isn't used anywhere else, meh, random IRC people don't have physical access to your machine :)
- pornel 9y agoUnless you have remote SSH logon enabled and IRC exposes your IP address.
- Fnoord 9y agoDepends how you authenticate with your password. You could use pubkey with or without a password. Even if you reuse the password there, even if they have your password, if they don't have your private key they can't authenticate.
- cuckcuckspruce 9y agoYet another reason to only use SSH keys.
- floatboth 9y agoRemote logon with passwords allowed and sshd exposed to the whole internet (not behind ISP's NAT, not behind home NAT, port allowed on home firewall, port allowed on laptop firewall).
- davrosthedalek 9y agoNo need to reuse your password. If the machine has sshd enabled, the attacker only has to guess the account name, but that's hopefully a lot easier than guessing the password.
- bartvk 9y agoNo, because if you type in your pw, it will show as stars ;-)