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   Message 137,220 of 138,051   
   William Unruh to panorain   
   Re: Network security.   
   09 May 21 19:50:05   
   
   From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2021-05-09, panorain  wrote:   
   > On 5/8/21 9:11 PM, Sidney_Kotic wrote:   
   >> On 5/8/21 5:23 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> There is comp.os.linux.security, but it is not active. Barely a dozen   
   >>> posts a year.   
   >>   
   >> Yeah, I saw that.  Way back in the dark ages there used to be some   
   >> pretty active ones that I followed.   
   >>   
   >> I was running snoop and supersniffer on my stuff at work.  Saved my   
   >> bacon when a helpful sysadmin from the main office logged into one of my   
   >> servers one night and "fixed" it.  Fixed it to the point where the   
   >> kernel would panic, it'd reboot, and panic and ... I fixed it during the   
   >> day thanks to getting to see part of what they'd changed.  The next   
   >> night they "fixed" it again, but I knew what they'd done.  I called and   
   >> politely asked they not be so helpful in the future.   
   > Why do you think they did this?   
      
   Probably the same reason that you posted this message 9 times.   
      
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