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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!naftalab.bus.utexas.edu!chandler From: chandler@fiat.gslis.utexas.edu (chandler howell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Looking for advice on FreeBSD WWW server Date: 27 Sep 1995 13:58:53 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 30 Message-ID: <44blat$a96@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <43o0rb$8sq@pandora.enet.net> <DF7G7r.AL@ritz.mordor.com> <44529e$99r@reason.cdrom.com> Reply-To: chandler@naftalab.bus.utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: naftalab.bus.utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] On 25 Sep 1995 01:57:02 GMT, Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > Maybe I'm overestimating people here, but this advice seems about on-par > with "don't stick sensitive parts of your personal anatomy into live electrical > outlets!" > Jordan But you forget that old SysAdmin adage: Make something idiot-proof, and they'll make a better idiot... Having SEEN what "trained security people" do with things like firewalls--not only running things like telnetd and ftpd (just putting them on non-standard ports), but then bragging about it to strange hackers... Nothing surprises me in this industry any more. -Binger -- *------------ I couldn't pay someone to let me speak for them -------------* Chandler W. Howell, Team OS/2 * "It's good to be the Bing."-SMason* UNIX Bigot and OS/2 Systems Analyst * "Officer Mitchell! I thought you * OS/2 Entertainment Development Council * said you didn't want to come * chandler@naftalab.bus.utexas.edu * back out here tonight!" * chandler.howell@sematech.org * *** Nugget is a Tool *** * ---------------- http://naftalab.bus.utexas.edu/~chandler -----------------* --I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm ALL OUT OF BUBBLE GUM!-- - Two Words: Tesla Coil ----------------------- We do precision guesswork -