Re: how to have AS/400 console at home -- MIDRANGE-L

You can also configure PC Anywhere to hang up and call back your home
phone#.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffry Kennedy" <jkennedy@certcoinc.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: how to have AS/400 console at home


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> PC anywhere has a password, your PC has a password and the AS/400 has a
password.
> Plus someone has to know the dial-in phone number.
>
> I never said ti was perfect, but it works.
>
> MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:
>
> > > > I use PC Anywhere to dial in to my PC and then start a session on
the
> > >  AS/400.
> > >
> > >  So, you have THREE machines.
> >
> > You have
> > (1) Home PC which dials into
> > (2) Work PC which signs onto
> > (3) AS/400
> >
> > Now if you can dial into the work PC so can a hacker.
> > What is the protection?
> > Perhaps the AS/400 has a password.
> > Perhaps the Work PC has a password.
> > Perhaps the Work PC is on a version of Windows where security cannot be
> > bypassed by an astute Windoze expert.
> > Depending on how the Home PC is connecting to the Work PC
> > perhaps a hacker is seeing those passwords being transmitted clear
enough.
> >
> > Or is the home PC to work PC tunneling through a secure encrypted VPN?
> > Your home PC had better have real good security so that a hacker does
not see
> > how to get into that VPN & simulate being you.
> >
> > If you want to do any restricted stuff, does this mean that the work PC
is
> > the main console?  If the work PC is connect to ma bell so that the home
PC
> > can dial in, it does not matter how secure or insecure the home PC is,
that
> > work PC is a hacker magnet.  How often do you change its passwords & how
many
> > wrong guesses before it is varied off?
> >
> > Of course the original question was not how to prevent hackers from
trashing
> > your AS/400 it was how to let anyone including the person asking the
> > question, do anything they damn well please on the AS/400 without
actually
> > being there ... lots of ways to do that, like leave explosives in
computer
> > room & go home & push the radio control button ... same effect, just
more
> > obvious what you done.  <G>
> >
> > Perhaps 2 machines work.  Perhaps not.
> > Get an extremely baby AS/400 at home.
> > Connect to work AS/400 over the ECS line.
> > Perhaps there is a protocol there that can be encrypted no matter how
brain
> > dead your local ma bell connection is.
> > Your extremely baby AS/400 at home might be networked to a home PC
inside the
> > firewall.
> >
> > MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
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