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Re: Even you can be hacked

  • From: james edwards
  • Date: Thu Jun 10 16:43:15 2004

>
> 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.

-- 
James H. Edwards
Routing and Security Administrator
At the Santa Fe Office: Internet at Cyber Mesa
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