I read recently about people on the cable network being able to access other
users computers if they had the knowledge of a sysadmin. Likely they were
also using Linux to do so. They could see files and everything is a browse
mode on other people's PCs. In the same article they discussed the
benefits of DSL (digital subscriber line). One benefit was that this could
not happen. A person would have to be at the phone company in the
switchroom or building or whatever to have this kind of access. Another
benefit being that you could use your phone at the same time to make a call
due to the way the setup worked. YMMV, but I can't try either since we
don't have that kind of service in my area yet. We actually may, but we're
talking paying an arm and a leg per month for it.
Brian
>Now that I know this, I'll look for a
>way to encrypt data that I don't want to be public.
>Is the system safe from the network side? I didn't install any servers.
Should I be
>afraid of Trojan horses? I ask this because my I have a constant connection
to the
>internet via cablemodem.
>
>Jo
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