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SubjectRe: Linux connectivity trashed.

On 03.29 Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> The penetration occurred because somebody changed our firewall
> configuration
> so that all of the non-DHCP addresses, i.e., all the real IP addresses had
> complete
> connectivity to the outside world. This meant that every Linux and Sun
> Workstation
> in this facility was exposed to tampering from anywhere in the world. This
> appears
> to be part of a plan to remove all non-DHCP machines by getting them
> trashed.
>

See the cleverness of his network admins, that spent their time configuring
a firewall to MAKE HOLES where there are not any...

--
J.A. Magallon # Let the source
mailto:jamagallon@able.es # be with you, Luke...

Linux werewolf 2.4.2-ac27 #1 SMP Wed Mar 28 23:27:18 CEST 2001 i686

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