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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 04:07:28 +1100
Subject: Re: Learning python networking
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:43 AM, William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> wrote:
> I was assuming another user picking up the connection using sniffed credentials (and yes, despite all the work on ssh, not all man-in-the-middle attacks have been killed).

If that can happen, then I would much prefer that it kick my
connection off - at least that way, I have some chance of knowing it's
happened. But I suspect that this sort of thing is way WAY out of the
league of the OP's stated problem :)

ChrisA