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From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug@proficio.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: ftp configuration clarification
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:26:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <007b01c7bb3b$c4219bf0$ab00a8c0@tenstac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006701c7bb38$e21fb540$ab00a8c0@tenstac>

I forgot to mention the more simple and more effective. 
I used to run more than several machines at once, and
left them on the net all the time, with lax security because
I was unaware of vulnerability. I thought it was cool to 
have all this connectivity, and all the granduer of linux
and other nix with all their free network software.

Now I do this, when I go to sleep or am not actually on
my computer I press the button on my cable modem 
that shuts off the network. No network means nothing 
to scan and find. If I walk out the door I now actually
shutdown my computer. I have bios password. I have
bios set to not boot from anything but the hard drive.
I have restricted parm in lilo, which means you cannot
enter boot parms. Perhaps I am paranoid but after 
being hacked one becomes jittery.

I used to proudly proclaim that I never get viruses 
and such because I was smart, then I was humbled.

  -- Doug


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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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