From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 27 13:25:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00853 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:25:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00793 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:25:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id WAA11947; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 22:24:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 22:24:40 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Jan B. Koum " Cc: Dennis Reiter , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QPopper exploit References: Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 27 Jul 1998 22:24:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Jan B. Koum "'s message of "Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:09:26 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id NAA00807 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jan B. Koum " 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