On Sunday 05 October 2008 05:37:17 pm Dusty Wilson wrote:
> >From what I understand, /etc/passwd has to be world readable. If I'm
>
> wrong, correct me please. If it's world readable, anyone can read it
> unless you use a chroot or use OS containers like OpenVZ (they'd still
> see the file, but i
I don't mean to say that linux isn't vulnerable, as any operating system has
its vulnerabilities, but it seems to me that with linux as a minority
market share at the moment (for desktops), and in the fields where linux is
common (servers), the people administering them are generally skilled
en
On Monday 31 December 2007 02:02:53 pm Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 16:38 -0500, Pls check this new site wrote:
> > Please see this site in Subject
>
> SO... is someone at d.o doing something constructive about all these
> The risk is that d.o might eventually start getting bloc
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 03:56, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Most offenders
> are blocked permanently, at the last count we're blocking about 27,750
> ranges. Our scripts could handle the 'repeat' messages if they needed
> to, but they don't. The script kiddies don't get five tries, we block
> them a
On Monday 20 August 2007 10:47, alex black wrote:
> > thus defeat the purpose). A default firewall simply can't work,
> > even if we
> > had some way to implement it perfectly for all packages (without
> > breaking
> > any, which we undoubtedly would).
>
> It all depends on context - I agree that a
It would be a great risk to a company TO offer a warranty, especially since
most of us either:
a) don't read warranties anyway, so they (e.g. M$) can say whatever they want,
b) don't really care.
I happen to fix PC's for people for some cash on the side (being 17 and in the
U.S. with our crapp
On Thursday 16 August 2007 15:09, R. W. Rodolico wrote:
> Unfortunately, I have to point to some of the
> user oriented firewalls you get for windoze (which, to my knowledge, Linux
> does not have). When they are installed, the shut down basically
> everything incoming, and all but a few standard o
On Thursday 16 August 2007 05:09, Robert Van Nostrand wrote:
> The correct answer for the better of all now/future Debian users is to not
> put a gun in the hands of a child.
> For those mental midgets that are willing to put their CC info on a box
> that they have no clue about then they deserve t
On Sunday 12 August 2007 13:16, Wade Richards wrote:
>Opening up ports
>to stop log file messages is kind of like removing your armour because
>you don't like the loud "ping" sound of bullets bouncing off it.
Well said. I really couldn't have said it better myself.
The only other thing I could ad
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