At 02:58 AM 2/3/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Hi.<Snipped irrelevant entries & redundant stuffs> Another point regarding his ignorance regarding security is: If he has to access your computer (file sharing, login, whatever...), consider his computer untrusted (i.e. owned by some script kiddie) and apply appropriate (tight) access restrictions accordingly. Make him use different passwords for your computer, if he has an account for it (because the password for his computer has to be considered to be already logged by some script kiddie). And so on. In other words: imply his machine as untrusted as you would if it operated by some malicious stranger - because maybe it is, and he doesn't seem to care enough. Bye, Benjamin.
Heh, thx Benjamin. On the bright side we've got a router up & running. I'll work on him & hopefully get him to see the error of his way. Tho that is hard to do cause I run as Admin on 2k. Mostly b/c 2k doesn't handle multi-users very well IMO. *sigh*
Fwiw, when he first came to live here, I told him I'm going to do my utmost to secure our LAN. And that I wouldn't allow him to compromise it if at all possible. With luck I can use that argument again & with yours in there too, it may sway him. :)
Thx luv
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