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Re: [Haifux] Another lecture suggestion

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


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