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Quotes of the week

Posted Dec 4, 2011 0:55 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by jzbiciak
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How can you be rebooting that rarely without leaving great big gaping security holes?


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Quotes of the week

Posted Dec 4, 2011 2:07 UTC (Sun) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]

Well, it's on a private network behind a firewall, with only one port open to the world running an up-to-date sshd. (I do regularly compile the latest updates.) There are no ports forwarded from the firewall to this machine. I have two user accounts on this machine: mine and my wife's, and currently my wife's account doesn't have a valid password set, and so is disabled.

I trust everyone that uses my private network (my wife and a couple friends).

Sure, someone *could* try to hack my WiFi and then try to find a remote root vulnerability that doesn't require an open port, and then try to guess my 8 character randomly generated alphanumeric password, but really, I'm not too worried about this machine.

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