From: Kyle Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 6/22/03 10:37 PM, "Donald Keenan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the
Cybertrough:
On Sunday, June 22, 2003, at 10:22 PM, chris wrote:
On these lists a lot of people attest to NEVER
shutting down their macs. These users are more vulnerable then because
even sleep won't protect the hard drive from a hacker using a program to
access hard drives?
True. Yes.
To which I'll just add that if you are behind a router (which all broadband/continuous on users SHOULD be), the possibility of this is VERY remote.
_Chas_
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