At 02:56 PM 9/22/99 +0200, Stephan Lauffer wrote:
Maybe - if you´re the sysadmin of a server, you must check and modify the system in any cases. A "normal user" instead normally does not have a internet connection 24h a day and also no static ip-adress. So it´s not very important, if the security-level of the system is not very high.
I would contest this. In the US, at least, 24h/static is becoming a fairly common beast, with the proliferation of Cable Modems and xDSL. Considering that the "power user" is the one most likely to go for those connection options, and the "power user" is also the one most likely to be running Linux, there's a correlation there that should not be overlooked. ... because "power user" != "knowledgeable system administrator" D