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Re: scripts kiddie sites

  • From: John Payne
  • Date: Fri Jul 07 11:20:23 2000

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 11:51:56PM -0400, jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Hal Murray wrote:
> 
> > The other type is systems that have been broken into because their 
> > adiministrators either don't care or don't know how to run a secure 
> > system.  This type of system can be used as a springboard to cause 
> > more mischief.
> 
> Even if you know how to run a secure system, all it takes is one
> previously unknown hole and a well connected script kiddie, and you're a
> springboard...at least briefly.

Once you were notified, you did something, tho right?

The problem isn't so much brief springboards as providers that flatout
refuse to accept that there's either a problem, or that its their problem.

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