I may not mind showing you the PHP scripts I'm using to generate web pages. I'll be dammed if I'm going to let you sniff traffic to get the passwords used to log into the database server though...
We're assuming that someone compromising this system is "evil and nasty and horrid and bad", right? I'm guessing that the concern may partly be for DDoS attacks.
Okay, maybe "the entire internet" is a bit of an overstatement, but if script kiddies who get lucky when distributing their bots can take down an IRC network for days on end... well, compromising this network would get you ever so slightly more remote hosts to control.
If it did happen, and for some random reason *you* were the target - so what if you didn't download KaZaA...:)
Since when was Winamp part of the Windows operating system?
Going from that sentence, as you did, I get the impression that IE is removed. shdocvw.dll and mshtml.dll probably could be removed, but that'd break other programs that hook into them to use the rendering engine.
That might include "the rest of the OS", but then again, it might not. Who knows?:)
You could... but the ICMP still has to get to your border router first.
If the links connected to you are saturated with incoming traffic, then it makes little difference with you do with it.
Did the concept of webrings ever really generate anything though?
Remember the last time you noticed a link to a webring'd site - you were probably on that site due to Google, and you were there because you wanted a specific piece of information.
Information found - close the window.
Information not found - hit back and try the next search result down.
Any online "communities" are usually formed by a group of people who know each other (at least to a minor degree), and not by the "next link on this webring."
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Code != Data.
:)
I may not mind showing you the PHP scripts I'm using to generate web pages. I'll be dammed if I'm going to let you sniff traffic to get the passwords used to log into the database server though...
Nice try, though.
We're assuming that someone compromising this system is "evil and nasty and horrid and bad", right? I'm guessing that the concern may partly be for DDoS attacks.
:)
Okay, maybe "the entire internet" is a bit of an overstatement, but if script kiddies who get lucky when distributing their bots can take down an IRC network for days on end... well, compromising this network would get you ever so slightly more remote hosts to control.
If it did happen, and for some random reason *you* were the target - so what if you didn't download KaZaA...
Since when was Winamp part of the Windows operating system?
:)
Going from that sentence, as you did, I get the impression that IE is removed. shdocvw.dll and mshtml.dll probably could be removed, but that'd break other programs that hook into them to use the rendering engine.
That might include "the rest of the OS", but then again, it might not. Who knows?
You could... but the ICMP still has to get to your border router first.
If the links connected to you are saturated with incoming traffic, then it makes little difference with you do with it.
Did the concept of webrings ever really generate anything though?
Remember the last time you noticed a link to a webring'd site - you were probably on that site due to Google, and you were there because you wanted a specific piece of information.
Information found - close the window.
Information not found - hit back and try the next search result down.
Any online "communities" are usually formed by a group of people who know each other (at least to a minor degree), and not by the "next link on this webring."