Date: 27 Jul 1998 22:24:39 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> Cc: Dennis Reiter <mcneills@accessus.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QPopper exploit Message-ID: <xzplnpf59fc.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Jan B. Koum "'s message of "Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:09:26 -0700 (PDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980727130821.23747A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
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"Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> writes: > Every computer which is somehow connected to any network (be it > Internet or not) must have proper security in place. If you think you not > going to get broken into for whatever reason .. guess what? Yes. You know that, and I know that, and I'm sure quite a few other readers of this list know that. But you'd be amazed to know how many people believe that crackers will overlook them just because they're on a dialup. If I were a cracker, the first thing I'd try would be to scan IP ranges known to belong to large ISPs' dialup servers, precisely for that reason (and also because there's a much higher chance of finding machines run by inexperienced or careless people there than amongst permanently connected hosts) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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