Yeah, and as if someone can't look at the email below that you posted with
all your damn contact information, name, title etc. and easily social
engineer a password out of somebody. You sound like the Home Security
Salesman that leaves his garage open just because you live in the suburbs.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nico De Ranter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 3:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [FW1] Autoreplies sent to the mailinglist
<rant>
I am subscribed to a large number of mailinglists mainly
development and security related. Some of them are low
traffic some of them generate a few hundreds of e-mails a day.
There isn't a single mailinglist amongst them however that
generates as much autoreplies as the FW-1 mailinglist. Aren't
we supposed to be a bunch of security aware people managing
firewalls? Then why are so many people yelling "He, I won't
be looking until xx/xx, you've got my e-mail address and domain
from the e-mail headers, please go ahead and crack my site.
I'll do the forensics when I'm back in a week or two."
If you go on vacation to a far away island, do you attach
a paper to your window saying "this house will be empty for
the next few weeks"? I'm sure most of you will have a
backup administrator to look after the firewall when you're gone
but unless you're working for a very big company (s)he is probably
not going to know as much about the system as you do.
I you realy have to use vacation messages then please configure
it properly so it won't send replies to mailinglists.
</rant>
Sorry for using up bandwidth with this message but I realy
got pissed after having received the 20th autoreply message.
Nico
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Nico De Ranter
Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B)
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