Dave Smith wrote:
> Wow, can I just say that things have changed a lot since I was at BYU. 
> Back then, everyone in the dorms got a publically routeable IP address 
> with no firewall. That was awesome! My dorm computer was directly 
> reachable from my home computer. Of course, back then I was running 
> Windows 95, so it crashed after about 4 days, but hey, those were the days.

Ahh, the glory days when you could get hacked while installing RedHat
6.2 through nfsd and WuFTPd, both of which were running out of the box
(essential services apparently).  Even before you had a chance to secure
the system and do updates.
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