Re: [Sheflug] RedHat and Script Kiddies

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:37:17PM +0000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> I think this is more the point :
> 
> "...limits itself to infecting Red Hat servers that haven't been secured
> properly."

	Indeed. And that's a very strong point. I guess (it has been
discussed on the list previously) that in the near future, when we all
have obscene amounts of bandwidth available for tasks such as
controlling the hot water tap, these things will become more of an
issue. I guess that you do get a lot of people setting up a website
because they think it's cool, instead of hosting it somewhere safe,
which is what people who can't be arsed to update things and to
administer a system should do.

	Serves them well, IMHO :-) But again, I supposse it's just a
matter of time (it probably has been out already) someone starts yelling
and panicking about how "unsecure linux is".

>  BTW, nice to see everyone has woken up again!
	
	Happy New Year, btw :-)
	José

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