[71214] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Even you can be hacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Kell)
Thu Jun 10 20:32:25 2004
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:25:46 -0400
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
To: james edwards <hackerwacker@cybermesa.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <00e201c44f2b$1d4389d0$0200020a@jamesnew>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
james edwards wrote:
>>Sean Donelan wrote:
>>>If you leave your lights on, the electric company will send you a bill.
>>If the neighbor taps into your power lines after the meter...?
>
> Not a reasonable argument. It is expected that unpatched hosts will
> get infected and it has been well reported on how users should
> protect themselves. A neighbor tapping another power is not something
> to occurs often. It is not reasonable
> to expect this to happen. It's not even a reasonable argumnet.
Suppose your neighbor is running wide open wireless...
Jeff
