Re: hacker...beware

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From: John Savard
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 00:00

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On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 19:27:58 +1000, yogi <yogi@herveybay.to> wrote, in
part:

>The best thing to do is just chill out... System administrators turn off the
>monitoring facility of firewalls once they are satisfied their rules work...

One is never sure that a firewall always works: monitoring is used to
find out what has happened in case an attack is ever successful. And
fewer computers would be hacked, the more deterrence existed for
attempts to make unauthorized use of them.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/crypto.htm

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From: jsavard@fNrOeSePnAeMt.edmonton.ab.ca (John Savard)
Subject: Re: hacker...beware
Date: 2000/11/08
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