On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:17:29PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > On the LAN, try nmap and Nessus. From the Internet, www.grc.com and > www.vulnerabilities.org. The former is the Web site for Steve Gibson, > a controversial figure. His Shields Up! scan is Window-centric, but a > decent starting point.
GRC considered harmful, Steve Gibson considered an idiot. Just because a port is open doesn't necissarily make the machine insecure, it's whether what's listening to that port is secure and set up in a reasonably secure fashion. He doesn't ever seem to take this into account, nor does he seem to know the correct definition of "hack." The guy's a great salesman, but he *really* should focus on misleading people about the reliability of FAT filesystems and stick to pitching SpinRite snakeoil. I still laugh at losers who don't bother backing up because they have SpinRite and lose everything to stupidity and hardware failure. In a perfect world, the guy wouldn't be allowed to sell anything until he first got a clue. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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