Re: [Nolug] Suggestion for a meeting topic

I'm something of a new member (old lurker), and this is definitely something
I've been eager to learn about. So, I second this.

-Elliott

owner-nolug-outgoing@covington.redfishnetworks.com wrote:
> One thing I'd love to learn more about in linux, and I'm sure some of
> you can probably shed some light on the subject, is basic white hat
> hacking and network security. Explain all the back doors in linux, how
> you can close them, set up a firewall, monitor them for intrusions,
> etc... Maybe even some general "rules-of-thumb" for system security,
> such as "never log in as root", etc... As linux's popularity grows and
> it starts to infiltrate more mission-critical roles, securing these
> systems is going to be of utmost importance. As we all know, linux has
> a reputation for being more secure than windows, which is really
> misleading, because a system's security is 100% dependant on its
> administrator, whether it be running *ix or windows... that reputation
> probably comes from the fact that linux has always been a hard OS to set
> up, so the people that do it tend to be smarter than the people that set
> up windows boxes. But, as distributions become easier to install and
> manage, we're going to have more and more people opening themselves up
> to attacks, simply because they did not know their OS was running some
> daemon that they didn't know about, out of the box.

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