[76708] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew S. Hallacy)
Tue Dec 21 04:34:22 2004
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 03:31:05 -0600
From: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix@poptix.net>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0412210613070.11301@sharpie.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:17:42AM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> and Sean will/maybe-has-already pointed out that "unix" (in all it's
> glorious variations) is no more secure than anything else... as much as
> it saddens me to say all that it sure seems to be the truth. :(
Only if you turn on all the services (running as the root user), then fire
up XF86, a web browser, and email client (also running as root).
(Yes, I am well aware that you can run software on Windows as restricted
userID's. We're talking about the typical desktop though)
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Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified
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