Re: Real-world security stats

["Patrick Stockton" <codejnki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

honestly i don't remember and I haven't tried, but here's an article from
sacramento about our cable operator (who was recently bought out by AT&T)
and thier policies on VPN's.

http://www.sacbee.com/ib/news/old/ib_news01_20000907.html


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Buxton" <peter@caresswm.org>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: Real-world security stats


> On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:55:19PM -0400, Dirk H Bartley was only
>    escaped alone to tell thee:
>
> > I see scans of all types and of all ports quite consistently and evan
http and
> > ftp scans from non chartermi.net ip addresses.
>
> Don't forget that if they always scanned you from the same addresses you
> could easily use tcpwrappers to defeat their scans. Does the agreement say
> anything about what ports they can scan, or are Charter's scans completely
> indistinguishable from j. random hacker's? What would happen if you ran a
> webserver at :8080? Would they still detect you?
>
> -peter
>