Burton M. Strauss III wrote: > You know, that's only partially a solution. For those of us who haven't > chosen to PAY for the upgrade to 3.4, we're left out in the cold. Quoting > from VanDyke's web page: > > "All users may evaluate SecureCRT 3.4 for 30 days free of charge. Registered > users who purchased licenses before July 1, 2000 should consult the Upgrade > Eligibility page to learn about licensing the 3.4 upgrade." > > and > > "SecureCRT Upgrade > > Registered users who purchased licenses before July 1, 2001 may choose to > purchase SecureCRT upgrades starting at $39.95 for a single copy. > > <snip /> > > SecureCRT users who purchased licenses between January 1 and July 1, 2000 > are eligible to download SecureCRT 3.3.3 and upgrade without charge. > SecureCRT users who purchased licenses before January 1, 2000 are eligible > to download SecureCRT 3.2.1 and upgrade without charge." > > > I'm not unsympathetic to the need to have a licensing revenue stream, but > let's remember that this leaves (dozens? hundreds? thousands? Just me) of > your customers unprotected. One of the README files on their site (I read it earlier today and didn't note the URL) says that a patched 3.2.1 version will be made available shortly. They are not leaving you out in the cold. You just need to wait a couple of days before resuming your practice of ssh'ing in to untrusted sites. (BTW, if sshd on a site might be a corrupted, malicious trojan which injects code into your local ssh client -- might it not also be a corrupted, malicious trojan which records encrypted password information, passes on a decrypted stream of everything you type in a session, or who knows what else? If you do not trust the sshd to which you are connecting, I'm not sure it makes very much difference whether the client has code-injection portholes or not...) >Bela<
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