Aha! :>
I think that the ability of a hacker to access any "work station" on a
network is pretty much totally dependent upon the network & its servers.
It certainly shouldn't be OS dependent [i.e. DOS more hackable than
Linux].
I'm not, however a network guru nor a hacker. If I were a network guru
my kid would be sitting at his own computer to access the internet,
rather than using mine. :>
Now it *could* be possible [particularly in my case, with a permanent
IP] to access my system in some manner, if the person knew both the
'proxy IP' and my fixed IP. But my system would have to be setup to
respond in some manner to spurious commands sent to it. I'm here
using the mailto dgi; even if someone managed to get a signal 'down' to
my system, this interface wouldn't recognize said signal and would not
respond to it. It might be possible for a hacker to send machine code
that rebooted my system [like some web pages do], but that would be a
pain rather than an invasion. And I don't know that it could be done
[the machine code] even then, if the software linked to the NIC wasn't
in an "I'll accept foreign data input" mode.
l.d.
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On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:40:42 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote:
> Hi L.D.,
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:25:00 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> <snip>
>> Now, why you *need* this information is the question. :>
>> l.d.
>> ====
> a friend of mine, a Linux fan, is curious about the concept having a DOS
> machine connected to the internet and if it would be possible to hack it
> (some kind of security check for Arachne :-).
> Regards Joerg
> -- Arachne V1.70, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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