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Date:      Sun, 04 Oct 1998 10:33:22 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Status Report on 2.2.6 Giveaway CD's
Message-ID:  <4.1.19981004103156.042058c0@mail.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <199810041324.JAA03078@shell.monmouth.com>
References:  <4.1.19981003222921.04246600@mail.lariat.org>

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At 09:24 AM 10/4/98 -0400, Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:

>Your average hacker is not going to try to hack a FreeBSD box in a house
>connected over a 28.8 either.  It's too slow to gain much and too small
>to be a problem.  The SOHO user's may have more of a problem with ISDN
>but they're rarely on 24x7.  The cable modem folks may be at more risk.

They are! I have already closed security holes for a group of cable
modem users who were being attacked.

Speed, however, is not the issue. It doesn't take much bandwidth to
send a 2K-byte exploit.

--Brett


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