On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 04:12:56PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: > If someone wants access to your box, because of the absurd bandwidth > available to a cracker (botnet, anyone?), they'll just try every xploit > in their db, regardless of it's compatibility with your alleged system.
Sure, but how often do "they" want it *that* bad, when there are heaps of insecure Windows machines out there with a *combined* bandwidth rivalling anything that any single entity would have. > You might as well just have ident running, I forward 113 onto my fBSD > machine, so my whole network appears to be 6.2-current (yes i'm too lazy Hey, there's no need to give them a helping hand. -- Chris. ====== "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
