Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 03:06:43 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>, "Ben Eisenbraun" <bene@klatsch.org>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Lockdown of FreeBSD machine directly on Net Message-ID: <007001c165e9$f3a5cfc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <00a601c165e4$5b018660$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Anthony >Atkielski >Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 2:27 AM >To: Ben Eisenbraun; questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Lockdown of FreeBSD machine directly on Net > > >Encryption greatly reduces the feasibility of attack; good encryption and a >well-designed protocol can reduce it so dramatically that it just isn't >cost-effective to attempt the attack. This logic discounts some of the reasons that people break into things. While I'd agree that probaby a lot of passwords come off visible PostIt notes, your making a mistake if you assume that crackers all operate off a cost-benefit basis. That's like assuming that all airplane hijackers want to leave the airplane alive. Sometimes people decide to be assholes and attempt to gun you just because they are assholes, and they don't care how long it takes or how much trouble it takes to do it, or what happens to themselves while doing it. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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