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My guess is that the site will experience the /. effect once enough kids read the State News during morning lectures :) -- 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