Re: [Nolug] Suggestion for a meeting topic

I'm game too!

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 20:46 -0500, Elliott Seyler wrote:
> 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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