Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 10/22/07 11:50

Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>> Sanders Kaufman wrote:
>>>> "Gary L. Burnore" <gburnore@databasix.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:ffgar8$3n6$1@blackhelicopter.databasix.com...
>>>>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:42:39 GMT, "Sanders Kaufman"
>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> No - locking the door only slows them down after an attack has begun.
>>>> If you want to PREVENT the attack - obscure the target.
>>>> You can't hit what you can't see.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sure you can. It's harder, but not at all impossible.
>>>
>> You wont even try to hit something you don't know is there.
>>
>
> Hackers don't care if it's there or not. They'll so a systematic scan
> just to see if something's there. It doesn't cost them anything.
>
Ah, but a scan of what?

I accidentally left a machine with an open global telnet up - for about
2 weeks.

No one hacked it. Its firewalled correctly now..

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