[Wolves] Re: [Wolves]

s parkes wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri May 16 09:45:01 2003


>From: Jono Bacon <jonobacon@yahoo.com>

>As an example...I was running off Blueyonder for a
>year and a half without a firewall protecting me and I
>was not hacked once, because I was low target. I am
>not denying that the risk is out there (my smoothwall
>logs show the risk :/ ), but I don't think the urgency
>is as great.
>
how do you know?

If JF rejects connections every 3-4 seconds you could have been owned in 
mins.  Clever crackers don't get caught and cleverer users don't either.

sparkes

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