From nolen@redhat.com Mon Feb 5 14:18:15 2001 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id OAA76348 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:18:11 -0800 Received: from supserv.support.redhat.com (nat-pool.corp.redhat.com [199.183.24.200] (may be forged)) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id OAA12764 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:18:10 -0800 Received: (from nolen@localhost) by supserv.support.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f15MI4223582 for linux@u.washington.edu; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 17:18:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 17:18:04 -0500 From: Thor To: linux@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: "Fisher" (fwd) Message-ID: <20010205171804.A22606@redhat.com> Reply-To: Thor References: <001301c08bfa$142e2ff0$e256d080@beast> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from mike@boobaz.net on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:53:01PM -0800 On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:53:01PM -0800, Mike wrote: > Sure it's a snap for the initiated, but (many) others do exist who install > and don't even know that they're running services at all. It is surprising the number of these folks (those who do not understand services in a server and how to turn them off) who deploy systems with unused exploitable services in internal and external networks. _Very_ surprising. Slainte, thor -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thor / Eric Rahn Nolen Red Hat, Inc. Senior Sales Engineer Meridian Office North American Enterprise Sales (919) 547 0012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .