Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:36:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Scanner <scanner@orion.webspan.net> To: Almost Anonymous <tech@narf.castroms.moreland.k12.ca.us> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How Secure Out Of The Box? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960626183234.13501E-100000@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: <31C86AF7.3517@narf.castroms.moreland.k12.ca.us>
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On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Almost Anonymous wrote:
> I am sure this has been asked 15 million times over, but here it is again:
>
> How secure is FreeBSD out of the box? Assuming I didn't have an account on the system, and the passwords are
> protected and well made (IE: efgREG739FJFhkh could be root), how easy/hard is it to crack? We have had some
> attempts (and 1 successfull on a linux box at the District Office) on a FreeBSD machine from a group called
> r00t, and I wanted to make sure that my precious little box is secure. Thanks for your time!
r00t is a group of know nothing script kiddies. Your linux can is not a
shock. But if you implement tcp_wrappers, and ipfw i would tell you to not
break sweat about r00t. Half of them dont even hack, the other half are
irc lusers who hang on #hack. Bah. lame lame lame.
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