Diwakar Ranganathan spewed into the ether:
>can i use gnupg? is it an international version or the
>NSA guys be after me?
You can, the NSA won't be after you.
>after reading an article on intrusion detection, i
>searched for nmap and found a reference in entry in an
>licq-related ASCII file, saying "nmap: scans for open
>ports". have i been h4x0red?
By reading the article? Nope.
If someone runs nmap against you, then they are looking for open ports. After they
list open ports, them they will attempt to get a root shell. Only after they get a
shell (root or not), will you be haxored, till then your machine is uncompromised..
>a few months back i used to browse the net as root.
>now i've changed the security settings to "High". i've
But still working as root? ;)
>also got some suspicious entries in the auth.log and
>security.log files (they're long and i'll post later
>for your viewing pleasure).
Send them to my personal address, please.
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