guy keren
Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:23:02 -0700
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote: > I just had an idea. > Assuming there will be total of 40 or 50 different people in this entire > w2l thingie (assuming you won't improve your marketing abilities, you > techies... :-) ), and assuming half of them will install Linux as a > result of the w2l, there will be about 20-25 machines with low security, > in the optimal scenario. It means these lectures can also be called w2h > (Welcome 2 Hackers). didn't mamma teach you the difference between 'cracker' and 'hacker'? you're talking about crackers, not hackers. > Bottom line: Security for the newbie. There should be such a lecture. As > a paranoid (non halusinating) person, I would like to offer myself as a > lecturer. no need for this as a seperate issue - we will mention this issue on the networking lecture in a receipe-manner (i.e. you should disable any daemons running on your system, and you should make sure the software you do run is up-to-date. in fact, part of this is more relevant for the basic administration lecture). if you're talking about setting up firewalls - that's a bit different, and not necessarily a topic that'll be good for a w2l series. we could, however, schedule such a lecture as a regular club's lecture that will be given after the w2l series. -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]