Re: [Sheflug] RedHat and Script Kiddies

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On 21 Jan 2001 15:41:05 +0000, Will Newton wrote:
> If you have wu-ftpd and rpc.statd running on a net facing machine it is
> unlikely you are a network admin, and more likely desperate to be hacked.


Hmm. I'm using GNOME, connected via UKLinux, so let's try...

ftp.gnome.org - (canvas.gnome.org) wu-2.6.0
ftp.uklinux.net - (s0.uklinux.net)  wu-2.6.1

Quite obviously incompetent then.

Or, they have better things to spend their time on. I think your
argument is, "there are more secure ftp servers than wu", not "wu
sucks". Slightly more likely to agree about rpc.statd, but then, that's
not really a significant internet service (i.e., not telnet / ftp / http
/ pop3 etc...)

Securing machines, if you're a professional, generally comes down to a
cost thing, not whether or not you ought to. wu-ftp certainly isn't
insecure enough to make me lie awake at night worrying about it..

Cheers,

Alex.
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