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Re: About War Driving ..
From: "Eric Furman" <ericfurman () fastmail net>
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:07:10 -0500
On 8 Dec 2006 14:28:21 -0000, krymson () gmail com said:
Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers and FatalSaint: Just want to say I'd watched this thread and I wanted to quickly point out something I felt was kind of a poignant thing in our field. You both have good points and, in my mind, you both have rather correct approaches. One of you believes that a layered defense with multiple hurdles will slow down attackers and stop a lot of non-savvy attackers, and the other prefers to shoot for the highly-skilled attacker and focus his efforts. I believe both approaches are just fine, and just depends on the people, business/network, and needs.
I disagree. ;-) I do agree with layered defenses, if they're real. Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers objects to FatalSaint's security measures because they amount to the following analogy; I want to keep burglars out of my house. Everyone knows that the entrance to houses is in the front and all doors are painted red. To increase my security I am going to move the entrance to the side and I am going to paint my door blue. Yes, to the casual person, walking by, this will work, but not to any determined attacker. All I have really done is make thing more inconvenient for me, the resident. Do not push this analogy to far, but it is essentially correct. IMHO. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is sponsored by: ByteCrusher Detect Malicious Web Content and Exploits in Real-Time. Anti-Virus engines can't detect unknown or new threats. LinkScanner can. Web surfing just became a whole lot safer. http://www.explabs.com/staging/promotions/xern_lspro.asp?loc=sfmaildetect ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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