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From: dpw@unisec.usi.com (Darryl P. Wagoner)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security checkup
Keywords: security intruder self-help
Message-ID: <1144@unisec.usi.com>
Date: 4 Oct 88 12:09:06 GMT
References: <167@carpet.WLK.COM> <1454@lznv.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: dpw@unisec.USI.COM (Darryl P. Wagoner)
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Organization: UniSecure Systems, Round Rock Tx
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In article <1454@lznv.ATT.COM> ziegler@lznv.ATT.COM (J.ZIEGLER) writes:
>In article <167@carpet.WLK.COM>, bill@carpet.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes:
>
>Please, please, please!!  Anyone with knowledge enough to answer
>this question, DO NOT POST IT TO THE NET!!!!  Electronic mail and
>net postings are grossly inappropriate places to discuss security. 

Yes, this is very good advice and no matter what don't post info on
security books like Unix System Security by Pat Wood; this would be
a hackers guide to breaking in.  So don't tell anyone about this book
or others like it. :-)   

It will keep a lot of SA's in the dark while the hackers rape their 
systems.  As more and more Unix boxs start to pop up there will 
be more and more novice SAs running them.  At one time I could see 
the merit in this thinking, but that time has passed.  I would say
that there will be many more SAs out there that will be helped by
this information than hackers that will learn how to break in.



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Darryl Wagoner		dpw@unisec.usi.com
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