On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Marc Renner wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Your dilema, is quite typical, however you are far ahead of most would be system
>admins. The majority would simply throw the system together, completely oblivious of
>the ensuing nightmare.
>
> Here's whats going to happen:
>
> You're going to put the website up (and probably soon thereafter a mail server).
>Immediately after your web/mail servers are in production, 1000 wannabe hackers (and
>2 very good ones) are going to compromise your system and use it to lauch attacks
>against NASA, the FBI, the White House etc etc..
>
> Next, whatever agency gets pissed off the most is going to call the NSA (National
>Security Agency) who is going to come to your little office and TAKE EVERYTHING YOU
>OWN.
>
> Granted this is Worst_Case_Scenario, however don't be surprised. Id suggest getting
>Linux6.1 (which is Free) and throw it on a little 486 PC with 2 nics. Check out the
>following link for more specific details:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO.html
>
> Good luck..
>
>
<grin> I used to, in fact still do, tell folks that it's all about files
and folders, just like in the cumputer realm, it's all a matter of files
and folders, and the space they consume, or the size of the files and
folders being compiled about you. It starts with school, as you travese
the system, the older starts to thicken. After yer schooling 'training'
and once your files reaches, say 3 inches of thickness, it's handed to the
local authorities, who add to it over time, untill it reaches say 6 or 8
inches, then it gets handed to the feds, and they continue to collect info
on you, till your files gets to be over say 12 inches thick, at which
time, the CIA has it in hand and you become one of the 'disappeared'.
Thanks,
Ron Dufresne
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