On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Michel Py wrote:

> > Pekka Savola wrote
> > You take one approach and disregard all the others.
> 
> I don't. I just say that in this scenario site-local address helps. What
> is the hacker knows the backdoor because he installed it himself and
> cannot compromise the web server? Your argument is irrelevant.
> 
> > Security is about finding the weakest links and strengthening them.  
> > You just looked at only one of them here..
> 
> Security is about plugging holes. There are hundreds to plug. Saying
> that plugging a hole is useless because some other holes might be open
> is the best way to get hacked.

If hacking into the firewall to install a static NAT mapping is the
easiest (or one of the easiest) way to break into a system, something is
REALLY REALLY wrong IMO.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords

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