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I was looking for something like minaterm the other day, trouble is i'd be scared to put my credentials into it. A when I think about it logically that isn't ra

I was looking for something like minaterm the other day, trouble is i'd be scared to put my credentials into it. A when I think about it logically that isn't rational (putty can grab my credentials just as easily), but still.

new299 12y ago
yes, and I also would be scared to too. It's interesting thinking about why though. I think there's a significant social/psychological component to the decision. I'd also be less scared if it was running on my own server, but it's not clear to me that this is completely logical either.
c22 12y ago
It's not entirely irrational. If putty wants to grab your credentials they have to ship a broken binary that once downloaded exists forever and can be examined and reverse engineered in the wild. Someone running a web service (or someone who has compromised said service) can target a particular user for a single session and the evidence that an attack occurred will only exist until a few caches get cleared.