[ILUG] SSH bandwidth usage.

[Brendan Arthurs]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 04:43:26PM +0100, Kieran.Tully AT acm.org wrote:
> If ever given out to you can then point out that your ssh usage is
> completely secure,

While the transport might be secure, SSH doesn't prevent you from
connecting to a compromised box. If you use local port forwarding it
could potentially allow an intruder inbound access via the remote
machine. 

That said, I use mutt over SSH all day every day.

Brendan.

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