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Date:      Fri, 27 Nov 2015 15:13:03 -0500
From:      Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VPN security breach
Message-ID:  <n3adh0$vgo$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <20151127104401.7fdfd5fd@Papi> <CA%2BtpaK39hDp2Gjrd3gXpH3Nn2LSLwpnjsjN2ZgGcV78us7oQ1A@mail.gmail.com>

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Adam Vande More wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> wrote:
> 
>> Any comments on this?
>>
>> https://thehackernews.com/2015/11/vpn-hacking.html
> 
> 
> Seeing as how it's not Apr 1, I can only assume that site is a clown show.
> 
> 
Serendipitous timing aside, I had a chance to run this by a friend this 
morning. They've known all about it for years but it is against their 
interest to divulge. He just laughed and said: "This is just the tip of the 
iceberg as far as we're concerned".

This is just civilians eventually discovering something that has been known 
by some for quite a while. Then the infotainment media needs to use it to 
make a buck by crying wolf and the sky is about to fall. Click bait and 
advertising revenue.

The major computer/network security issues aren't technical. Technical 
issues are readily addressable by those competent enough to do so. The real 
problem is the social office, and the psychology of office power-politics. 
Until the hierarchical human dynamic changes OPM style hacks will remain a 
dime a dozen, ad infinitum ad nauseum.

-Mike





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