>Security by obscurity is bad, but so is "spoon feeding". Learn for the >sake of learning -- gather knowledge and improve yourself. If you run >into a brick wall, try and chisel through it before asking someone else >to do it for you.
Yes, learning by practice is great. Except if we all did that, we'd have no need for the mailing list. Maybe I'm wrong, but the mailing list is for questions...even if they're stupid. On top of that, some of us don't have the time to expend learning everything we want to. As it is, I already work 50-60 hours a week and sometimes I ask really stupid simple questions just because I don't have even the 10 minutes, when I need it, to figure it out myself. And it doesn't apply to this question, but sometimes it's better to ask than to play with something if you're unsure if you can "put it back together" yourself - say, when your company's primary money making database is FUBAR'ed, you have to fix it, and you have only the next hour to do so. It's often NOT the best time to play around. >Oh well.. just my opinion and I am sure I will be blasted for it, for >one simple reason -- it goes against what the script-kiddies believe. >They use the "security by obscurity" as a smoke screen to blame us, >instead of themselves... Well, I didn't follow this whole thread, but at one time *I* asked how to do the same thing. I certainly don't consider myself a script kiddie, if only because securing my company's servers is part of my job description. Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body.
