Re: RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] "Attachments killer"

Hi Mike and others:
So is there a way we can write our own firewall programs without the
holes that the commercial vendors seemingly deliberately put in??
If I knew how to do it, I would!!
I'm sure it would be a helluva task, but I really resent the connivance of
government and industry to violate our privacy while pretending not to, or
worse, misleading us into buying flawed goods with nonexistent protection.
Just got "wormed" myself. Lots got trashed; I ended up doing a reinstall of
windoze. Thank God all the good stuff is backed up. Email address book is
history though!
Cheers

Marcus

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Partain" <srs@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 8:06 AM
Subject: OT: RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] "Attachments killer"


> "I get immediate messages when some one tries to attack my computer."
>
> Unfortunately you don't. You only get messages for known attacks. One of
> the favorite ways of attacking these days are through bugs/holes in
> firewalls. It may upset some of you to know the government can and has
> directed such holes in the past, and they often get exploited by
> non-government hackers. Seen the recent exchange between McAfee and the
> FBI over Magic Lantern? Imagine how much goes on you don't know about.
> Although I'm not recommending that you do not run firewall software, I
> am warning that it is much less protection than you may think.
> You need to keep your OS software updated constantly, which also has
> problems - recently many Linux users lost their hardrives to a new
> kernel bug. There are no perfect solutions) - backup, be prudent.
>
> Mike
>