On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 19:29 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > On Tuesday 07 December 2004 19:26, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > That is your prerogative, but on behalf of all the people that have to > > react to attacks after lazy sysadmins allow their systems to be > > compromised, please make sure your system is not publicly accessible. > > It's behind two firewalls. Is that enough? Heh - I would certainly hope so... > Also, it's got nothing important on it. Serious stuff's on Debian systems and > they get their maintenance. It's not so much whether anything important is on board... It's that unpatched systems are often used as springboards for further attacks, warez, spam, etc. Thomas