[Sussex] Semi useless info

[Jon Fautley]

Mark Harrison wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jon Fautley" <jon at geekpeople.net>
> To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 1:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] Semi useless info
> 
> 
> 
>>Surely that still means that you're sending sensitive info over the wire
>>though? Or does apache+OWA run on the same machine?
> 
> 
> Over the wire WITHIN a private network, of course. Given that the kind of
> networks that do this are switched, then you would actually need to subvert
> the network had quite a deep level in order to intercept.

I'll lend you a copy of 'Hack Attacks' which explains exactly how easy 
subverting switched networks is, and describes an attack that stole 
personnel department termination emails, and caused an employee to go 
spastic on the network :)

> I do actually like Exchange. My record uptime for an Exchange server is
> about a year and a half, and the reason it crashed was that the UPS the
> server was on died...

You may like anchovies on Pizza, they still leave me with a foul taste 
in my mouth :)

> .... of course, I run my own business on linux, but if a client wants
> Exchange, then they get it :-)

It's nice to see you've seen the light :)

Jon