Re: Browsers

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From: Luke A. Kanies
Subject: Re: Browsers
Date: 06:27 on 27 May 2004
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.

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