Re: [Nolug] Suggestion for a meeting topic

This is kind of funny. I was JUST at B&N and saw "Hacking for Dummies"
on the shelf. Anyone seen that?

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Chris Jones 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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