On 02/25/2011 06:30 PM, John Hasler wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:But there is no 100% way to tell the machine is clean, so you will have to wipe and reinstall anyway.But if the machine is in fact clean you will have lost nothing but time. Which is better: to know for sure that the Russian mafia got all your customer records or suspect that they might have but have reason to believe that that they probably didn't?
Which is why you should run your site and databases on an obscure but very secure OS and platform like OpenVMS/Alpha.
All the people who used to hack on it in college are at least 45yo, far beyond their "cracking" phase.
:) -- "The normal condition of mankind is tyranny and misery." Milton Friedman