RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Pudent default security - Was: CyberInsecurity: The cost of Monopoly

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Wray
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michal Zalewski On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] You can't do it particularly easily just by configuring local built-in firewall on each box. Or, you can, but you have no easy way to maintain and audit

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Pudent default security - Was: CyberInsecurity: The cost of Monopoly

2003-09-30 Thread j
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 05:57, Steve Wray wrote: Ok ok, 'Compulsory windowing operating systems' as compared with operating systems whose windowing desktop has a non-windowing layer underneath (and, in case anyone hadn't noticed, (in the case of Linux at least) has perfectly adequate 'office'

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Pudent default security - Was: CyberInsecurity: The cost of Monopoly

2003-09-30 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 12:33, j wrote: The same is certainly NOT true of the masses of end-user boxes barfing 3 million pings/hour out their broadband. As the report (accurately) points out, that is the weak point, where the resource (shiny new P4 on a cable modem) is run by a clueless 'user'.