[PLUG] OT: Intrusion could soon be legal

[Anthony Schlemmer]

My wife has a system with Win2K Server on it and you can filter ports on 
it at least. I have port scanned the Win2K system on our home network 
with "nmap" and all I can say is I'm glad it sits behind a Linux-based 
firewall. The system is presently in its default configuration with no 
port filtering being done at all. A Linux system with services running 
an no unfiltered ports would also be worrisome.

Tony

On Thursday 25 July 2002 10:28 am, Alex Daniloff wrote:
> From the school course of physics:
> On every applied force there is a counter force.
> If somebody is trying to hack you, you can counter hack them.
> Or if you don't like cyber hacker duels you can put
> in stealth mode all unnecessary ports on your Linux box
> and set up a firewall.
>
> Poor Winblows users ...
>
>
>
> -------------------
>
> > On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 09:09, Kyle Accardi wrote:
> > > Just in case there is someone on the list that doesn't read The
>
> Register
>
> > > everyday.
> > >
> > > http://www.theregus.com/content/6/25726.html
> > >
> > > "If House Hollywood sock puppet Howard Berman (Democrat,
>
> California) gets
>
> > > his way, it will become legal to hack a network in efforts to
>
> impede the
>
> > > on-line illicit trade in copyrighted works."
> >
> > I wonder... if you see somebody is actively trying to hack you,
>
> would it
>
> > be legal to ... uhhh ... force them to stop?
> >
> > It is illegal to shoot somebody, but you can shoot somebody who is
> > trying to shoot you.
> >
> > --
> > Rob
> > "Google is your friend"
> >
> >
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