On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:55:47AM -0500, Douglas Frank wrote: [top-posting fixed] > >Think how much fun it'd be if a *non*-colleague script kiddy broke your > >password and started serving his *own* porn collection from your accounts > >all over your network. > If he can get past the corporate firewall, a srictly compliant password > on my account ain't gonna be much of a challenge! Speaking as an admin who has seen this happen: your weak password may be part of the mechanism by which the attacker bypasses the firewall. Computer networks are a mesh of interconnected systems; security needs to be good at all points for it to be good at all. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> --> Fedora Users & Developers Conference, hosted by Boston University <-- February 18th, 2005 <http://fedoraproject.org/fudcon/>
