[olug] remote root heads up on Redhat

Phil Brutsche phil at fury.brutsche.org
Wed Sep 27 14:06:54 UTC 2000


A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> > You need to invest a little time in a VPN between home and work/wherever
> > you are at the time.
> >
> 
>     uhh, nope, would mean my box still presents interface to the outside
> world.

Not necessarily - it doesn't take anything more than ssh :)

> I think a totally separate network might be just the solution here for
> a variety of reasons I'll be happy to discuss at the next security
> related meeting.

DMZ?

>   Really pissed guy on #EFNet has chilled :-) When you're fighting guys in
> little black PJs you don't shoot 'em one at a time - you fly to their home
> country and bomb the shit out of their rolling stock, shipping, power
> generation, etc, etc.
> 
>   So when the college student from an eastern university who was helping him
> got a visit from Vice Provost of IS for the school, and the admin of the
> 'gray hat' site he was using heard we were going to skip the FBI and proceed
> directly to district court in NE with a suit against him and his employer(!)
> it took about 12 hours for the message to get through. I don't imagine the
> fact that I put a bounty on him hurt, either :-)
> 
> 
>    Much credit for this sucess goes to M0ntar3, an australian naval cadet, a
> 2nd shift operator at a french telco, and a Russian/Greek kid from Cyprus who
> serves as the commander of our 'off shore artillery' when we get into such
> disputes. Some times its good to have friends in low places :-) :-) :-)

:)

Remind me never to piss you off...

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch at creighton.edu

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe.
And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein


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