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On Thu, 27 May 2004, Abigail wrote: > A webinterface to the command line. Crack smoking idiots. HP used to a $600 "secure terminal server" (it is since integrated into most boxes, I believe) for their N4000s to provide network access to the console port. It was a very simple box. It ran java. It was "secure" because it required a password, even though that password was not encrypted. It ran java in a web server. The java app was a command line interface to the console. I don't _know_ how much more bullshit was in there to use java and a web server instead of a simple serial connection and ssh/telnet (it was certainly no more secure than just using telnet), but it was obviously quite a bit. HP was a bit too much into engineering and a bit too little into engineering things that made sense. -- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://abstractive.org | http://reductiveconsulting.comThere's stuff above here
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