[Gllug] My firewall is rooted

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Mon Jul 15 22:43:15 UTC 2002


On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, tet at accucard.com spake:
> Yep, wipe the box and start again. For a firewall box, that's pretty
> much the only option. Once it's been compromised, it's untrustworthy,
> which for a firewall is pretty terminal...

This is why keeping a mirror image of the firewall somewhere
(nonobvious) behind that firewall is a good thing :) you fix the hole on
that and remirror...

-- 
`There's something satisfying about killing JWZ over and over again.'
                                        -- 1i, personal communication


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