full-disclosure - Hacked: Who Else Is Using Your Computer?

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Date: Wed Mar 30 22:02:23 2005
From: chromazine at sbcglobal.net (Steve Kudlak)
Subject: Hacked: Who Else Is Using Your Computer?

If someone came and made themselves a polite guest I wouldn't mind. In 
fact a  pretty open computer protects me from lots of things.  "Well you 
see I have an open system and I have no ideas how those objectionable, 
questionable, illegal things got here." I mean that has seemed to work 
well as a defense for lots of sysadmins I knew,;)

That was the big problem I had with fully open systems which was keeping 
down the amountof questionable clutter that would accumulate. It was 
always a bit of an effort.

I dunno that original message did sound like an advert by some 
anti-virus company.  However castlecops are. I mean giggle sounds like 
someone who protects things for that creepy burger king guy. Gack they 
did revive trhe king thing!!!

Have Fun,
Sends Steve

Vladamir wrote:

> I leave my computer open with no passwords so everyone can use it :)
>
> Nah -- I do agree this article is in the wrong board, and I love 
> finding new ways to let others use my computer without my permission :)
>
> dk wrote:
>
>> Ill will wrote:
>>
>>> I think this article should have been posted on some aol mailing list.
>>> I'm sorry but it looks like it was written for someone whos never used
>>> a computer,
>>
>>
>>
>> hehehe agreed. I had flagged Laudanski's stuff for filtration as it 
>> is rather light-weight; but some of the articles are worth a giggle 
>> or two. Esp the link to firefox with "Browse Safely" above it. 
>> Perhaps "Browse-a-bit-safer" would be more appropriate Paul. ;/
>>
>> This article reminds me of pamphlets or self-help tapes for 
>> out-of-touch parents to "communicate with your teenager today! (tm)". 
>> You know; the ones that inevitably cover how kids talked and acted in 
>> the 80's but published in the 90's. (etc, etc) >;/
>>
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