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Re: I thought everyone would be interested in this



On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:41:23AM -0500, Larry Morrow wrote:
> I have not gone completely through the site to review it, but based on its
> stated purpose, it has great merit.  TO answer your question, yes there
> is a point to running it on a firewalled box.  Information is key.  As a 
> sysadmin
> you always want to be one step ahead of an attacker.  Just having certain
> ports closed is good, but also knowing when and who is attacking is better.

I like the idea of this thing but what happens if there's a bug in those
scripts that fakes the vulnerabillities?  Then couldn't it just be
vulnerable too?

-- 
Jeremy Lunn
Melbourne, Australia



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