Re: [cobalt-users] telnet access to users?

[Dom Latter <qube@xxxxxxx>]

Kris Dahl wrote:
> 
> We've had 'secure' machines that have been hacked without any benefit of

Ain't no such thing as 'secure'.  There is just more or less difficult
to hack.

> telnet access.  I guess I am of the school of thought that it doesn't matter
> all that much what minor changes you make (changing the shells out, etc.)
> because in the end, it doesn't really amount to a hill of beans.

Anything that makes it more difficult to hack, is worth doing.

We sit behind a pretty tight connection, but the b****rds still got us - 
a flood ping attack starting Friday night filled up the /var partition 
and had stopped the server doing its business (e.g. accepting mail)
by Monday morning.

<snip cheap bandwidth>
> Savvis, however, is like $500 for a 'business class' 256k.  Guaranteed QOS
> is nice, tho.

<envy> Here in Jolly Olde England the best deal for a 64K leased line is
about 4K pounds per year - that's about 500 US dollars a month.  But it 
is "real" bandwidth.  (Cable modems don't count). </envy>