[ale] hackers and thier methods

[Chris Fowler]

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size=2>No.  You are in control of your equipment.  Certain pieces of 
equipment lend themselves to being better
secure 
then others.  Not due to the nature of the services running on it.  
But due to the nature of the envirnment on the
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Some 
embedde quipment has hackable protocols.  That is the nature of using any 
software.  But just because
they 
are hackable does not mean the hacker will be sucessful.  Personally I 
do nt support the use distro + PC = firewall.
A 
product that is built for this may be better suited.  It just scares me to 
load RH 7.2 on a box and configure it as a firewall.
If I 
get hacked all the tools are there for mischief.  If it is on n embedded 
piece of equipment then maybe nothing is there of use if they 

gain a 
shell.  Who knows?
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  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Stephen Turner 
  [mailto:artic_knight at yahoo.com]Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 
  5:43 PMTo: ale at ale.orgSubject: [ale] hackers and thier 
  methodsso i remove all these packages from my box, should 
  i bother removing vi? it offers no hacks as i see it but i suppose my 
  REAL question is, can a linux hacker or someone hacking linux run programs 
  outside of your box that will configure, alter the box? or do you have to add 
  programs such as a text editor in order to alter text? and what stops them 
  from installing or "planting" them on my server?
  
  
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