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Re: Security



A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> If a person has a box connected to a network, but there are no daemons
> such as telnetd, ftpd etc etc is it still possible for that box to be
> hacked into?

Not really - for someone to hack something there has to be something to
hack :)

They can still mess with stuff but they can't get root.

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch@creighton.edu

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein


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