From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 04:40:58 +0800
To: Rick Smith <smith@sctc.com>
Subject: Re: Moscowchannel.com hack
In-Reply-To: <199609031548.KAA04410@shade.sctc.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.960904111229.918C-100000@smoke.suba.com>
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On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Rick Smith wrote:
> : On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Joel McNamara wrote:
> : > Just a matter of time before some builds a dedicated Satan type tool that
> : > scans for  HTTP server holes or messed up file permissions to make locating
> : > potential victims easy.
> Snow replied:
> : Write your web site to a CD-ROM and hard-code the base directory into the
> : webserver.
> Or host it on something with mandatory access control protections.
> There are still a handful of us building such things, and they can
> give really good protection to web page contents.

     Could you illuminate me on this subject please? I am working with a 
potential client who may need a fairly secure web server. 

Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com