Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 10/22/07 22:44

Sanders Kaufman wrote:
> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:4I2dnZdK9LwoCIHanZ2dnUVZ_tKinZ2d@comcast.com...
>> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>>> I accidentally left a machine with an open global telnet up - for about
>>> 2 weeks.
>>>
>>> No one hacked it. Its firewalled correctly now..
>> So? No one attempted to hack it in two weeks. What does that prove?
>> Maybe they weren't worth hacking?
>
> An open, freely available, unsecured, global telnet box - NOT WORTH
> HACKING??!!
> It's the Holy Grail of botnet zombies.
>
>

Indeed. Which is why I was deeply grateful that no one noticed it before
I could get it tested. And set the firewall to come on when
booted..couldn't test it where it was as the firewall allows ME in.


>> Some of the sites I monitor have had over 500 attempts per day to access
>> various ports. Telnet wasn't one of them because it's not active. But
>> there are many other ports which could be active. I finally had to take
>> additional steps to secure the systems.
>
> Hackers don't *try* to connect via telnet because it's not active?
> What - are you pre-notifying them?
> No, of course not.
> You're just making shit up to embiggen yourself.
>

the bigger the arsehole the more shit comes out.

Jerry likes to lord it over everyone..he knows some, but not as much as
he wants people to believe.


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