On September Saturday 10 2005 10:24 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Jos,
On Saturday 10 September 2005 06:09, Jos van Kan wrote:
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<snip> Save your breath. We had the "you must quadruple-erase the contents of your swap partitions 'cause the CIA/NSA/criminal-next-door has magic overwritten disk sector reading hardware" counterpart to this paranoia-fest about a week ago.
I think some people like to worry and be scared.
Jos van Kan
Randall Schulz
Well there were a couple of demonstrations in this part of the planet that would scare anyone! ( Made the nightly news, natch) guys in a car driving by small office blocs, 8 floors or so, offices owned by Medical docs AND Lawyers... and they not only got into the lans, and " Need to borrow a cup of bandwidth please" Except they didn't ask they just used it, Then they went browsing thru the various Lans in the building. Careful, since there WAS a video crew in the auto, not to actually look at files, tho they made note of what was there of interest. Even scarier, especially if you have kids home alone, those internet cams, the ones that don't have to physically go thru your computer, but can use the internet to upload pics to a website... the folks in teh auto, showed pictures of the people in the house, and if you have "nanny cams" installed they actually show most of the house, so this guy was able to do a nice reccy and see if there was anything that might be worth takeing a closer look at ( inside the house, for instance.) They can look around and see if anyone is at home that might give them a problem... like maybe a 3meter tall guy.. Can't these cams all hookup via ethernet or similar, rather than the wireless stuff ? If you want to watch nanny, or housekeeper or whatever , you night be putting your family members at risk. -- j registered linux user #363029