In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels de Koning) wrote:
>hmmm.... what you say here worries me a bit.
>Is it really /that/ easy to hack a net-connected Amiga? (compared to the
>alternatives you mentioned)
>Makes me doubt if I still want to use my Amiga (under AmigaOS) as the
>internet gateway of my local network. Maybe I'll dress up the 1200 as a
>Linux box than, that might be safer......
It depends really. Mostly on what kind of services you're running. In one sense
an Amiga is more secure from any random attacker, since much fewer people know
how to hack an Amiga, compared to practically any unix architecture. :)
Personally, I would feel more secure with a properly configured (!) BSD/Linux
firewall.
T r o e l s W a l s t e d H a n s e n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.cs.uit.no/~troels
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