At some point I'd like to go on one of those ethical hacker training courses (not for malicious purposes) but until then I do agree it would be a good topic to cover if anyone is in the know with regard to linux security and any holes we should be aware of.
If anyone is up for it you could possibly set up a couple of demonstrations, practicals would also be a good idea. Breaking into your own laptop will give us all a sense of how secure or the lack thereof of our own systems, followed by a follow up pracitcal of locking down the hatches, and trying again. That sounds like a good night Regards Richard 2009/12/17 Steve Tompkins-MacQueen <st...@tophome-ip.net> > In the Ubuntu 9 posts > > Alen you rase a interesting point "...it's a trivial to find out what your > username is" Perhaps if we have another meeting this may be a interesting > thing to look into. It also shows that the current obsession the people > have with passwords is perhaps missed plased if as in some cases thay are > little more than window dressing. Perhaps it is time to focus on data > protection river than system protection as the only secure system is a > unusable system. > > Not that I condone hacking(of the illegal sort) > Perhaps we could all swap laptops at the meeting and have time trials to > see who can retrieve a single document in the shortest time. > Or perhaps we could share thoughts on how to do this. > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >
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