Both sides have done crazy things. Didn't the US military have a list of cities, including some Canadian ones (I've heard Winnipeg) that it planned to irradiate to test the potential health effects of nuclear fallout? I heard brief mention of that in a TLC documentary regarding recently declassified military documents.
Anyway, the point is, that in extreme times people get some extreme ideas. But I doubt the United States and Canada would ever turn against each other today. It would be pointless to turn on your strongest ally.
I believe there are various weaknesses if you use SSH1 connections (spoofing vulnerabilities) that may have led to interception of your login info. Once an attacker has any local user account, a linux system is good as gone.
Edit your sshd_config so that it accepts SSH2 connections only.
Here's an interesting idea... it turns out that it's relatively easy to make life difficult for companies that create spam software. Specifically, drive up their cost of business by costing them cash in pay per click search engines. The process is described here:
The IDE hard drives aren't nearly as reliable as they (could) be, and the manufacturers know it. I recently had an IBM tech support tell me about a near top of the line drive that I really shouldn't use it 24 hours a day, in a server setting.
Storage media without moving parts is the future. The trick is to make it nonvolatile, but cheap.
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Apparently Nortel Networks has such a clause. This has pissed off plenty of new EE graduates from my university. :(
Both sides have done crazy things. Didn't the US military have a list of cities, including some Canadian ones (I've heard Winnipeg) that it planned to irradiate to test the potential health effects of nuclear fallout? I heard brief mention of that in a TLC documentary regarding recently declassified military documents.
Anyway, the point is, that in extreme times people get some extreme ideas. But I doubt the United States and Canada would ever turn against each other today. It would be pointless to turn on your strongest ally.
I believe there are various weaknesses if you use SSH1 connections (spoofing vulnerabilities) that may have led to interception of your login info. Once an attacker has any local user account, a linux system is good as gone.
Edit your sshd_config so that it accepts SSH2 connections only.
Here's an interesting idea... it turns out that it's relatively easy to make life difficult for companies that create spam software. Specifically, drive up their cost of business by costing them cash in pay per click search engines. The process is described here:
www.spambattle.comThe IDE hard drives aren't nearly as reliable as they (could) be, and the manufacturers know it. I recently had an IBM tech support tell me about a near top of the line drive that I really shouldn't use it 24 hours a day, in a server setting.
Storage media without moving parts is the future. The trick is to make it nonvolatile, but cheap.