Re: Benign crackers?

2001-02-21 Thread Daniel Stark
the firewall admin is out of a job. People should constantly strive to secure their own boxen, we don't need hackers to do it for us. From: "A. L. Meyers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve Rudd [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Benign crackers? Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:21:02

Re: Benign crackers?

2001-02-21 Thread Matthew Sherborne
Daniel Stark wrote: You wouldn't actually imply that hackers are out their providing a welcome service do you? I can see if you asked for your network to be stress tested, but to go as far as saying they provide a welcome service? Come on! Yeah, they might have found a security

Benign crackers?

2001-02-21 Thread A. L. Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Steve Rudd wrote: Daniel Stark asked: At 01:53 PM 2/20/01 -0800, you wrote: How exactly did you get hacked? Did you leave security wholes large enough for a bus to drive through open? Open your inetd.conf file and # out

Re: Benign crackers?

2001-02-21 Thread Daniel Stark
admin is out of a job. People should constantly strive to secure their own boxen, we don't need hackers to do it for us. From: A. L. Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve Rudd [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-security@lists.debian.org Subject: Benign crackers? Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:21:02 +0100

Re: Benign crackers?

2001-02-21 Thread Matthew Sherborne
Daniel Stark wrote: You wouldn't actually imply that hackers are out their providing a welcome service do you? I can see if you asked for your network to be stress tested, but to go as far as saying they provide a welcome service? Come on! Yeah, they might have found a security whole,

Benign crackers?

2001-02-20 Thread A. L. Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Steve Rudd wrote: Daniel Stark asked: At 01:53 PM 2/20/01 -0800, you wrote: How exactly did you get hacked? Did you leave security wholes large enough for a bus to drive through open? Open your inetd.conf file and # out