From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-10-11 23:07:06 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 11 Oct 95 16:07:06 PDT
From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 95 16:07:06 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: NYT on Internet Flaws
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Patrick Horgan wrote:
>
> > From: "K. M. Ellis" <kelli@zeus.towson.edu>
> >
> > This one is _really ripe_ for a response to the editor. Ideas?
> >
> > We could start something off-list if there are several interested in
> > co-authoring.
> >
> I'd love to see something in there about most commercial sites being behind
> firewalls without nfs access across the firewall. This greatly reduces the
> risk from the nfs problems. If you get your binary via nfs from a trusted
> host inaccessible from the internet, then if you have this problem management
> can handle it as an employee problem;) There are ways to make secure
> firewalls, it's fairly well understood. Sometimes people point to things
> like the hack Mitnick did last Christmas, but his attack took advantage of
> a couple of things a security expert shouldn't have allowed, first and
> foremost two machines were accesible from the internet, and one of them
> trusted root logins from the other without a password:(
It might also be worth noting that people accessing the net
via an ISP from home do not typically use NFS either.
--Jeff
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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
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