On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:36:16 +0100, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > On Jun 29, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:00:33 -0700, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: >> >>> On 6/29/12 6:56 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>>> Should my Debian system becomes cracked or infected by any kind of >>>> treat I would worry more about my usual files and not the settings >>>> for Filezilla. I mean, nothing new here, security is a "multi-edged" >>>> sword. >>> >>> >>> Really? I'm far more concerned about my credentials for foreign sites >>> than I am for any other information I store locally. >> >> Yes, really. >> >> The information I can store in my systems are by far more important >> than the passwords for my FTP sites. In the end, it only affects the >> FTP credentials, nor databases, nor root accounts... because you aren't >> login as root for your FTP sessions, right? >;-)
> My root credentials for my local machine aren't stored in plaintext. I did not mean that. I mean login to your FTP server as "root" (and not as plain user) which is different thing and of course should be avoided. > And if the local machine is compromised, the critical threat is its use > as a zombie, not any info that's on it. You sure? Being a zombie could be even funny, sending spam and infected e- mails to windows users, kinda "justice and divine revenge", he, he... :-) > There simply isn't any confidential data. Lucky you that don't have to worry for that. > Sent from my iPhone ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I hope you also care for the data stored in your cell phone >:-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jskf56$68h$9...@dough.gmane.org
