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Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 10/22/07 00:23
Gary L. Burnore wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:42:39 GMT, "Sanders Kaufman"
> <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote:
>
>> "Gary L. Burnore" <gburnore@databasix.com> wrote in message
>> news:ffg1n1$d6e$1@blackhelicopter.databasix.com...
>>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:50:03 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c>
>>>>> Nope. Security by obscurity is no security at all.
>>>>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> Locking your door would be a form of prevention that could easily keep
>>> it from happening. Will it keep everyone out? No. but it'd keep out
>>> the crackhead who'd just go to the next house to look for an unlocked
>>> door.
>> Yeah -but if you obscure the door well, you don't have to worry about
>> locking it.
>
> Not true at all. Comparing it to hacking, someone tries everything
> whether or not it looks like a knob until something opens. Locking
> the door would prevent that.
I don't think so really. They try the usual things. Ports that come back
with meaningful responses.. but unless they have a clear idea that you
have something as it were lying on the back seat of the car in plain
site, they just walk down the cars trying the door handles.
Why take a lot of effort to break into an empty car?
A sucesful entry means either hat you left teh door open and they
happened along, and if it doesn't look like a door and they didn;'t
happen along, cost you live n an isolated place that is a low
probability, or it means that they knew you has something they wanted,
and mounted a determined breakin. Nothing is secure against a determined
break in.
So I prefer look like there are no doors, even if you find the house,
and when you look in the window there isn't anything to see worth
spending 5 minutes ripping a hole in the wall for.
I run my own server, here, behind my own firewall. Its slow, but its
pretty safe. No one is going to sniff my network. My PHP code isn't that
great anyway. It does a job, that's all.
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