[67218] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Thu Feb 5 13:19:29 2004
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 10:13:23 -0800
To: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
From: JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com>
In-Reply-To: <ldy8rh31op.fsf@newnat.outblaze.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 08:56 AM 2/5/2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>Is there some really good "network security for dummies" book that I
>can point such people at?
A "social" approach is often more effective than the "technical" approach
i.e. it is often easier to hack into a secured system via "social
hacking". In a similar vein, while I have no idea if it's "good", but I
bet it would be satisfying *and* effective (no matter if he actually reads
the book or not) to buy a copy and give it to the luser^W idiot ^W NOCling
in question:
<http://www.cobb.com/chey/Network_Security_for_Dummies.html>
You could take a cluebat[1] along when you give it to him. A bit of carrot
and stick approach. :-)
jc
[1] <http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030210&mode=classic> UF
was actually selling these for a while, unfortunately they are all sold out
now.
