Re: Banc of America Article

2003-01-25 Thread Ryan Fox
> > Does anyone else, based upon the assumptions above, believe this statement > > to be patently incorrect (specifically, the part about 'personal > > information had not been at risk.') ? > > Which not technically correct, they are not technically incorrect > either. Hm. One possible attack on

Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps

2002-10-25 Thread Ryan Fox
> i don't believe that 2 or 3 will ever happen, for simple market reasons -- > it is harder to make money if you do 2 or 3. however, 1 only costs a small > bit of ops expense, and has no market impact at all, so it's practical in > simple economic terms. Not only that, but unless _everyone_ impl

RE: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL)

2002-10-07 Thread Ryan Fox
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 14:29, Cleve Mickles wrote: > ...so what exactly did we(AOL) do to get referenced > in this email thread? Years of marketing that made "AOL" interchangable with "the Internet" for a large percentage of the tv viewing world. ;) -- Ryan Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Security Practices question

2002-09-22 Thread Ryan Fox
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 18:22, John M. Brown wrote: > > What is your learned opinion of having host accounts > (unix machines) with UID/GID of 0:0 > > jmbrown_r:password:0:0:John M. Brown:/export/home/jmbrown:/bin/mysh The biggest argument I have against creating accounts with uid 0, is that ev

Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection

2002-09-06 Thread Ryan Fox
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 10:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What kind of implact on the global internet would we see should we observe > nearly simultaneous detonation of 500 kilogramms of high explosives at N of the > major known interconnect facilities? Keep in mind that traffic in the global int