My guess is that the site will experience the /. effect once enough kids read the State News during morning lectures :)
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Stephen Bogdanski
Network Support
College of Veterinary Medicine
Michigan State University
>>> On 11/28/2007 at 10:29 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We have been in serious discussion about what practices are being used
> on state-mail.com. The site states that they do not store your
> password, and we've had people check their cookies locally and found
> nothing useful in them.
>
> However, knowing that they make use of PHPSESSIONS would lead me to
> believe that there could be session files laying around in the /tmp
> directory on the state-mail.com server holding information in
> plaintext. Otherwise, how could all of this magic work. Now, it is
> likely that those sessions get torn down and the information properly
> discarded (automatically, as it should). But yes, the potential exists
> for that server to get broken into leading to X, Y, and Z. The
> potential also exists that the sessions are done in memory, so there's
> less worry there.
>
> I don't see any huge problems with students wanting to use
> state-mail.com, but I think its being touted about as this great
> replacement when all it really is, is a web front-end to an IMAP client,
> plus a few little extra bells and whistles. Upon logging into
> state-mail.com, it creates 3 IMAP connections. Upon checking a message,
> it creates another 3 IMAP connections. And so on...
>
> I went ahead and ran some "infoporn" since I know all of you on NAG love
> that type of stuff. I've compiled a list of unique logins for the past
> month and they are as follows:
>
> For the month of November (thus far) there have been approximately 1081
> completely and totally unique NetIDs logging-in via state-mail.com
>
> This is the breakdown of unique logins on a daily basis:
>
> Wed, Nov 28th 2007 - 239 (as of 10:22am)
> Tue, Nov 27th 2007 - 523
> Mon, Nov 26th 2007 - 546
> Sun, Nov 25th 2007 - 86
>
> Sat, Nov 24th 2007 - 66
> Fri, Nov 23rd 2007 - 57
> Thu, Nov 22nd 2007 - 60
> Wed, Nov 21st 2007 - 88
> Tue, Nov 20th 2007 - 111
> Mon, Nov 19th 2007 - 114
> Sun, Nov 18th 2007 - 89
>
> Sat, Nov 17th 2007 - 72
> Fri, Nov 16th 2007 - 98
> Thu, Nov 15th 2007 - 101
> Wed, Nov 14th 2007 - 77
> Tue, Nov 13th 2007 - 94
> Mon, Nov 12th 2007 - 84
> Sun, Nov 11th 2007 - 58
>
> Sat, Nov 10th 2007 - 40
> Fri, Nov 9th 2007 - 53
> Thu, Nov 8th 2007 - 74
> Wed, Nov 7th 2007 - 59
> Tue, Nov 6th 2007 - 41
> Mon, Nov 5th 2007 - 43
> Sun, Nov 4th 2007 - 27
>
> Sat, Nov 3rd 2007 - 17
> Fri, Nov 2nd 2007 - 31
> Thu, Nov 1st 2007 - 29
> Wed, Oct 31st 2007 - 24
> Tue, Oct 30th 2007 - 15
> Mon, Oct 29th 2007 - 20
> Sun, Oct 28th 2007 - 12
>
> These numbers, at this point are manageable by both our servers and
> state-mail.com's server. But with all newer connections onto
> state-mail.com's server, it will be interesting to see how well it will
> hold-up. That's what everyone seems to be overlooking (well, everyone
> who is publishing these articles at the State News).
>
> Just some thoughts and info for now...
>
> ../brm
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