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Internet Security: Where Do We Stand
buxton writes "The Economist is running an interesting story which overviews the current global situation on internet security in hackers, terrorism, worms & virii, Microsoft's 'monoculture', and a bunch of other interesting points. Some nice suggestions made by big names in the software industry have been included, such as creating more easily traceable methods of people (i.e. trying to eliminate online anonimity) as a method of preventing hackers. One suggestion which I thought was partictularly interesting involved a bounty system whereby a price would be put on 'hacker's heads', incentivating other hackers to go after them and bring them forward."
Seriously. For more information than you ever wanted to know about why "virii" is incorrect, please see here.
Thank you.
"Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them." -- David Brent
You forgot about claiming a Microsoft tactic that's been floating around the past few weeks as "interesting":
:)
One suggestion which I thought was partictularly interesting involved a bounty system whereby a price would be put on 'hacker's heads', incentivating other hackers to go after them and bring them forward.
Not to mention the crackers/hackers thing which has already been mentioned
OK, I tried that and it came back IPTables not found.
No, since you want thing to work for Gramma, you write up a script for her and you call it something like Dear_Grammas_Script And then you tell Granny that all she has to do is type that in if she ever reboots. p. And if you REALLY loved Grandma you'd just make that a startup script which takes approximately 5 seconds longer. Or just get her to run Red Hat or Mandrake which let you easilly configure your firewall. I'd say it's even easier than on a Mac since on the Mac you'd need to know where to go find the firewall settings. It's not very intuitive. Pretty ironic. Under Mandrake you just click on the security tool.
And if you REALLY loved Grandma ... get her to run Red Hat or Mandrake
Haha.
I'd say it's even easier than on a Mac since on the Mac you'd need to know where to go find the firewall settings. It's not very intuitive. Pretty ironic. Under Mandrake you just click on the security tool.
Eh? Need to know where the firewall setting are? You'll find them in the Sharing panel of System Preferences. Doesn't seem any harder or less intuitive than clicking on the security tool in Mandrake.
Were it my Grandma I'd just ssh into her mac and set it up without her knowing (ok, most grandmas don't have an always on internet connection but this would still be the nicest way to go, IMO).
maybe incentivizing was what the submitter was after. Oh, and by the way, don't rag on someone for not "no"ing the right word to use if you can't do it yourself ;)
do not read this line twice.
It basically looks like this (drakfirewall):
Which services would you like to allow the Internet to connect to?
*Everything (no firewall)
*Web Server
*DNS
*SSH
*FTP... etc