[Coco] coco4 / Linux

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 12 February 2014 22:17:21 Aaron Wolfe did opine:

> On Feb 12, 2014 8:27 PM, "Glen VanDenBiggelaar" <glenvdb at hotmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Sorry for the rant, but I have been h
> > Sent from my iPhone
> 
> Linux would let you finish your sentence.

Yup, and his android is probably 10x more secure than a win8CE phone will 
ever be.  Android is a slimmed down linux.

When this system gets destroyed, its me that did it, not some pimply-faced 
kid writing windows scripts. In 15 years, I only know on 1 (one) linux box 
that was ever hacked.  I felt something wrong while working on a non-mail 
related script, so I saved my work & unplugged the cat5 from and rebooted 
the mail server at wdtv.  I then helped Jim repair the damages, which were 
well documented because he didn't have a chance to clean the logs. We only 
plugged in a cat5 long enough to download a fixed version of bind. That was 
in 1999 I believe.

And right now its listed on spamcop again because somebodies *%#)(* windows 
machine has been rooted.  Since there are around 20 machines in sales, I 
don't know if Jim has found the culprit yet.  They will not like it when 
Jim does find it because the machine WILL be wiped lox clean and re-
installed.  If he has to do that salesman's machine again, he/she may find 
themselves looking at a linux login.  Whether they like it or not.

Windows machines have their place, but hooked to a piece of cat5, doing a 
dhcp direct from the IPS's server is NOT one of them. To have any security, 
get a router that can be reflashed to dd-wrt firmware, and put the machine 
on a local address someplace in the 192.168.xx.xx block, letting the 
firewall in the router do the Native Address Translation. That will stop 
99.99% of the script kiddies.  And you can let it suck mail all night 
without worrying about if YOU still own the box in the morning.
 
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Cheers, Gene
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