On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 11:51:56PM -0400, jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Hal Murray wrote:
The other type is systems that have been broken into because their adiministrators either don't care or don't know how to run a secure system. This type of system can be used as a springboard to cause more mischief.
Even if you know how to run a secure system, all it takes is one previously unknown hole and a well connected script kiddie, and you're a springboard...at least briefly.
Once you were notified, you did something, tho right? The problem isn't so much brief springboards as providers that flatout refuse to accept that there's either a problem, or that its their problem. -- John Payne http://www.sackheads.org/jpayne/ john@sackheads.org http://www.sackheads.org/uce/ Fax: +44 870 0547954 340% tax? http://www.boycott-the-pumps.com/