Re: Warning: ShareSniffer Released

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From: Hal Burgiss
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:48

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On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:23:21 GMT, Joe King <cluelessnewbie*@home.com> wrote:
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>The up side of it (if there is one) is that it just might start
>publicly pointing the finger at people who refuse to RTFM and take
>reasonable precautions to secure their systems, and others who plain
>just don't give a damn about what is going in or out of their
>system/connection.

Catch 22. By definition these people are 'clueless', don't RTFM, and
don't know what is going on with their system. I doubt they would ever
know that they are being 'used'. Even if their harddrive fills up with
somebody else's stuff, they'd probably just buy a new one, or whatever.

-- 
Hal B
 hal@foobox.net
 hal@burgiss.net
 hburgiss@bellsouth.net
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arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!63.208.208.143!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.atl.bellsouth.net.MISMATCH!newsfeed.atl!news1.atl.POSTED!localhost!hal

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From: hal@burgiss.net (Hal Burgiss)
Newsgroups: comp.security.firewalls,bellsouth.net.security,comp.dcom.xdsl,comp.dcom.modems.cable
Subject: Re: Warning: ShareSniffer Released
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