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Some people go WAY over the top
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The WasteLAN
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
2 edits | Time to check the appliances..
LOL!  When WILL people learn that there's no such thing as perfect code in the world??
To paraphrase: "If they make it, someone else WILL break it"
'Cmon now, MOST (I said most, not ALL) Black Hats/Hackers/Crackers or whaterver they want to call themselves don't work regular 9-5 day jobs so they have FAR MORE time to pick and poke at code like Cisco's IOS until they can peel enough layers of protection away from it like an onion to get at the soft, vulnerable underbelly that will ALWAYS be there if one looks hard and long enough for it.
Give any reasonably intelligent person enough time and resources, and NO electronic medium wil be safe, which means that vigilance and caution should be the first rule of Network Mangement but it seems like most Admins who get caught with their pants around their ankles when a crisis hits have gotten away from the "Not IF it happens, but *WHEN* it happens" mindset of proactively dealing with hardening their networks and have instead moved to the Chicken Little "It won't happen to me" model of securing and maintaining the system's in their care by denying that problems even exist and have little regard for the consequences, because if they did, they wouldn't be in a position to be exploited in the first place. |
