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Re: Leak of SNMP write password via SNMP read community in NETGEAR WG102 - Prosafe 802.11g Access Point

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Subject: Re: Leak of SNMP write password via SNMP read community in NETGEAR WG102 - Prosafe 802.11g Access Point
From: Steve Shockley <steve.shockley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:25:44 -0500

On 1/9/2009 11:52 AM, Simon Richter wrote:

SNMP communities are a safety, not a security measure. I know of very few
SNMP implementations that have protections against brute force or
dictionary attacks.

srsly? Passwords don't have much in the way of brute-force ordictionary attack protection, but I wouldn't put my password in myout-of-office message.

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