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Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings

  • From: John M. Brown
  • Date: Sun Sep 22 18:54:57 2002

Same bug-ridden stuff, just better understanding, staying up with
patches, and understanding the human engineering side of things.

so maybe my absolute statement should have been..

s/prudent users don't get hacked/prudent users get hacked much less often


On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:27:52AM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, John M. Brown wrote:
> 
> > > a prudent user does not ssh _from_ a machine they don't control or
> 
> > prudent users don't get hacked.
> 
> Really? Care to list the bulletproof hardware and software these god-like
> creatures use, rather than the bug-ridden stuff we lesser folk have to
> make due with?
>