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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: The magic security CD disc Re: HTTP proxies
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > I forget which of the Rainbow Series of books said it -- the Yellow > Book, I think -- but one of them noted that the same LAN that was > insecure in an office might be quite secure in a submerged submarine > with a highly-cleared crew aboard. As far as I know, we don't have a big problem with zombie computers on submarines DOSing the Internet. It takes a lot of time to talk individual users through fixing their computers. Especially when they didn't break it. They just plugged the computer in, and didn't spend 4 hours "hardening" it. Most of the time we're not talking about very complex server configurations, with full-time system administrators. The "magic" CD would be for people who don't know they are sharing their computers with the Internet. When they find out (or someone else reports it), they don't want to share their computers with everyone the Internet. They just want it fixed.
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