I would never consider anything you do on twitter or any othe social network as private in the least. Using twitter for this purpose is so far out of scope from its original purpose I would NEVER suggest using it for anything like this
On 9/4/09, bh...@itworldclass.com <bh...@itworldclass.com> wrote: > Well the tweets are private. And having to install some sort of mailserver > the risk out weighed the latter. Plus I am just giving status > green,yellow,orange,red,black. > Or something like othgyk1 rebooted at date. > Not to much there that would help an attacker. > And now I have almost instant notification of an attempt. Gives me time to > log in see what is happening and do some fancy rerouting to /dev/null :) > > ------Original Message------ > From: Bert Van Kets > To: bh...@itworldclass.com > To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Hardware monitoring with twitter. > Sent: Sep 4, 2009 3:09 PM > > So you put the status of your firewall on an external system you have no > control over....... > Hmmmmmm. I would never do that. ;-) > > > bh...@itworldclass.com wrote: >> A little update to my firewall project. I have ripped out sendmail...and >> now using twitter to monitor my firewalls health along with my >> windows/linux servers. >> This is great as I have now reduced the overhead on the hardware and >> reduced vuln. In the appliance. >> Thanks goes out to tcstool for pointing out an app shown on hak5 to make a >> bat file into a windows service. Future projects include using this with >> my ips and ids systems. Thoughts >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry >> _______________________________________________ >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> Pauldotcom@mail.pauldotcom.com >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> >> > > > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > Pauldotcom@mail.pauldotcom.com > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom@mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
