Have you wrapped your head around this? http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070125-8707.html
According to Vint Cerf and others, one in four internet connected computers is part of someone's botnet. That's 150,000,000 computers ready, willing and able to do whatever their remote owners want. I would put the figure at 90% because I can't imagine what's protecting the other three from their neighbors. On Tuesday 23 January 2007 10:37, John Hebert wrote: > My brain just assploded. > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> > To: general at brlug.net > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 10:28:02 PM > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] [SAGE] The danger of SSH keys.. > > That's an interesting physical security story but why bother breaking in > when you could just send an email that installs a bot on the secretary's > desktop? With that, is the user really the weak point? > > On Monday 22 January 2007 16:42, -ray wrote: > > Always. Users are always the weakest point. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ >_________ Get your own web address. > Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
