[Gllug] Insecure practices at my ISP

[Jason Clifford]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, David Pashley wrote:

> > Not analogous at all.  In the article, "Certainly, he strayed into an
> > account (or accounts) other than his own, but wouldn't anyone with a
> > healthy sense of curiosity be tempted to do exactly the same?". Well,
> > no, not anyone who wants to stay out of prison..
> > 
> But looking at other peoples directories could be classified as
> unauthorised access. Looking at /etc/shadow could be classified as
> unauthorised access.

Does the same apply to the use of `ls -al` or find though? After all 
that's all anyone would need to run in order to determine the security 
issues Gary mentioned.

It might even be considered a reasonable thing to do given that he might 
be trusting a vital part of his business operation to the system.

Jason Clifford
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