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From: Shadow Wolf
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:00

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Actually several crackers and hackers have written white sheets on taking
down firewalls.
George Marengo <gmarengo@home.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:49:21 -0800, "Shadow Wolf"
> <ShadowWolf@lvcm.com> wrote:
>
> >Exactly!  I mean after all if firewalls and proxies really worked then
how
> >come high end systems still get broken into???
>
> Because they generally bypass the firewall through a weaker
> interconnecting system. Very rarely do firewalls actually get
> penetrated due to a weakness in the firewall itself. It may be
> due to a weakness in a linking system or through protocols
> and ports which were thought to be "trusted"
>

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From: "Shadow Wolf" <ShadowWolf@lvcm.com>
Subject: Re: Mediaone Hacker
Date: 1999/12/16
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