On Friday 16 January 2004 11:20 am, Dominic Stratten wrote:
> Yes I'm running 2.06C - the information stored on this forum is
> available to all anyway (apart from email addresses) so would make it
> pretty pointless to hack (although someone will probably try at some
> point anyway).

That's rarely the reason someone would crack into a box.  Rarely are
attacks these days to get to your "information" unless you're collecting
payment/credit-card information.

Usually today's casual attacker wants to hide running applications on your
machine to a) spam, b) Distributed DoS someone, c) distribute illegal
software/file sharing, d) brag to their other 15-year-old (either truly,
or mentally) friends.  Add e) distribute virii if you're running a
windows-based server, since most of the kiddies haven't got the skillset
to both crack the Unixes and use them to distribute things to Windows
machines... and most virii are both server and "client" these days...

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Nate Duehr, nate@natetech.com

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