If I have a firewall, and I'm the only person who uses my computer, do I
really have to have a password on my non-root account?
I know the answer is yes but -- why? They can't do anything to my
machine anyway, except use it. And due to the firewall that never
happens anyway.
--
To
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 19:28, Tom wrote:
If I have a firewall, and I'm the only person who uses my computer, do I
really have to have a password on my non-root account?
I know the answer is yes but -- why? They can't do anything to my
machine anyway, except use it. And due to the firewall
If I have a firewall, and I'm the only person who uses my computer, do I
really have to have a password on my non-root account?
I know the answer is yes but -- why? They can't do anything to my
machine anyway, except use it. And due to the firewall that never
happens anyway.
There is no
Tom wrote:
If I have a firewall, and I'm the only person who uses my computer, do I
really have to have a password on my non-root account?
I know the answer is yes but -- why? They can't do anything to my
machine anyway, except use it. And due to the firewall that never
happens anyway.
What
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 13:59, Oliver Elphick wrote:
--snip--
A user password could also be a protection against nosy girlfriends...
At least until she says Why won't you tell me your password, don't you
trust me? in which case it's about as easy to answer 'correctly' as
Does this make me look
Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If I have a firewall, and I'm the only person who uses my computer, do I
really have to have a password on my non-root account?
I know the answer is yes but -- why? They can't do anything to my
machine anyway, except use it. And due to the firewall that
On Sunday 07 December 2003 01:28 pm, Tom wrote:
If I have a firewall, and I'm the only person who uses my computer, do I
really have to have a password on my non-root account?
I know the answer is yes but -- why? They can't do anything to my
machine anyway, except use it. And due to the
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 11:28:41 -0800,
Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
If I have a firewall, and I'm the only person who uses my computer, do
I really have to have a password on my non-root account?
I know the answer is yes but -- why? They can't do anything to my
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 09:48:00PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
..be paranoid _enough_.
Yeah, thanks everybody. Every once I in a while I let the fact that I
never seem to get hacked confuse me...
I never ran Virus software on my Home PC and I never got infected,
except once: working at
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:28:41AM -0800, Tom wrote:
If I have a firewall, and I'm the only person who uses my computer, do I
really have to have a password on my non-root account?
I know the answer is yes but -- why? They can't do anything to my
machine anyway, except use it. And due to
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 14:07:19 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 13:59, Oliver Elphick wrote:
--snip--
A user password could also be a protection against nosy girlfriends...
At least until she says Why won't you tell me your password, don't you
trust me? in which case it's
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On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:28:41AM -0800, Tom wrote:
If I have a firewall, and I'm the only person who uses my computer, do I
really have to have a password on my non-root account?
YES! Firewalls are not the end-all, be-all in security. Security
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On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 02:07:19PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
At least until she says Why won't you tell me your password, don't you
trust me? in which case it's about as easy to answer 'correctly' as
Does this make me look fat?. :)
I had a
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On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 01:01:55PM -0800, Tom wrote:
But really, I'm not a dumb ass: I *never* got hacked at home.
Of course not. I though I think the term you're looking for is
cracked.
http://ursine.ca/jargon/html/C/crack.html
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.''`.
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 at 21:36 GMT, Paul Morgan penned:
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 14:07:19 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 13:59, Oliver Elphick wrote: --snip--
A user password could also be a protection against nosy
girlfriends...
At least until she says Why won't you tell me
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