Re: hacker...beware

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From: Colin Watson
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 00:00

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John Savard <jsavard@fNrOeSePnAeMt.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:
>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.

True, but not every access is malicious. The original poster just
asserted that his firewall had detected a cracking attempt, but gave no
details. For all we know it could be somebody telnetting to port 80.
Without more evidence I'm sceptical; people who panic to Usenet about
every portscan obviously haven't run an Internet-connected firewall for
long.

Er, followups somewhere else. To poster will do.

-- 
Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
"And I forgot the next verse / Oh well, I guess it pays to rehearse
 The music sheet's so hard to find / What are the words? Oh nevermind"
  - "Smells Like Nirvana", Weird Al

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From: cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: hacker...beware
Date: 2000/11/08
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