full-disclosure - A rather newbie question

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From: evaughn at levithan.net (Ethan Vaughn)
Subject: A rather newbie question

This might be obvious, so i apologize in advance.

I just wanted to point out that this is probably the no.1 security fallacy
I hear among my endlusers.

"Schmidt, Michael R." <Michael.Schmidt@...obile.com> wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> I use ISA server.  This is my home network, so I probably have nothing
> that they would be interested in.  I do have two static IP addresses and
> a DSL line.

Yes, there *is* something "they" are interested in: owning your box. Even
the  wimpiest granny-owned win95 box is valuable to a blackhat. Once
"owned" your box becomes a "safe machine" from which a blackhat can launch
anonymous attacks. Any trace will come back to you.

I think of it this way, how would I like my personal machine's IP address
to show up in a DDoS attack log against FBI.org? That usually motivates me
to spend a little extra time on my personal net's securiy.