Up to now I've been connecting to the internet from home through a
corporate firewall, both under Windows and now Linux. So I haven't
given the issue of security much thought.
I plan to get a private ISP pretty soon, though. What should I be
worried about if I'm connected under Linux? What could a malicious
person actually *do* to a Linux box on the internet? Would they be
able to access my HDD without having to log on as a user? If so,
would that access be read-only, or rwx?
Are there tools I can exploit, either out of the box from Mandrake
or from some other source, to protect my machine? I'm on Mandrake-
Linux 7.2.
Thanks!
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Mark Shaw
