Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)

[John Summerfield]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>>
>> Finally, when all is said and done, security is _my_ problem. 
> 
> Depends. People usually crack a system and then use it as a gateway to 
> crack other systems. Then it becomes more of a global issue.

I neglected to mention, I've seen some cracked Linux system. The 
presence of X or equivalent (were it present) was completely irrelevant. 
In my experience the most effective way to crack a system is to 
enumerate accounts and passwords.

These days, the easiest way to gain access to systems I maintain is to 
guess the details of an email account. Your next problem is that that 
gets you access to my email service, no more.

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Cheers
John

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