On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:43:02 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
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If you are connected to the internet in any way, your machine will get hacked and you will become part of a botnet serving spam or worse. This is pretty much an inevitability.
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I have a httpd, sshd, and ncftpd. I use iptables with very tight parameters, including a complex libipq filter I wrote. I am attacked all the time, but I don't think much, if anything, gets through.
Mike.