On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:17:52 -0000 root <Urbanhacker> wrote: > Lets assume you're on a 24/7 connection, and you're that paranoid > that someone would be targeting your machine as soon as you boot. > If this is the case then get a hardware firewall.
May favourite example on that score was a Win98 install a friend did, which was cracked by the time the cutesy "Introduction to Windows" applications finished coming up. As it happens we were logging the network anyway (we were doing network performance testing and the collector was left running) and so determined that he just happened to be in the right place at the right time during a CIDR block sweep that walked our entire network -- but it still makes a fun story. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
