Re: Warning: ShareSniffer Released

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From: John Navas
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:52

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In <1orc9t0dblf72e35c9vvjj562kfff17vmm@can.gov>, Joe King
<cluelessnewbie*@home.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:22:26 -0500, Lawrence Baldwin
><baldwinlSPAMMENOT@mynetwatchman.com> wrote:

>>My biggest concern is that it utilizes a newsgroup repository to collect
>>and dissemenate IP addresses with known open shares.  Others (including
>>automated worms) could easily leverage this data, facilitating system
>>compromises.
>
>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.
>
>It might also force some of the broadband cable operators to take a
>more pro-active approach to securing and protecting their subscribers
>with a secure and monitored infrastructure.

Right.  And the "upside" of burglars is that they motivate landlords to
install security systems in apartments?  Get serious.  Providers aren't
going to pay any attention.

-- 
Best regards,
John Navas     <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/>
     CABLE MODEM/DSL GUIDE:  <http://Cable-DSL.home.att.net/>

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