[nycbug-talk] Fwd: Merry Christmas from the FreeBSD Security Team

Jesse Callaway bonsaime at gmail.com
Sat Dec 24 23:10:26 EST 2011


On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Bill Totman <billtotman at billtotman.com> wrote:
> On Dec 24, 2011, at 15:04, Jesse Callaway <bonsaime at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> telnet might be useful for running things like machinery such as a generator
> or maybe an industrial centrifuge...
> of course such things only run in a network which is properly firewalled. an
> internal private network where node based security need not be worried about
> in the first place.
>
>
> Why depend on the firewalling being properly configured when layers of
> security, particularly if SSH is freely available, can be taken advantage
> of?
>
>
> -bt
>
>
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Oh I was joking. It was a jab at the saps in Iran who got saddled with stuxnet.


-- 
-jesse



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