[Techtalk] Re: 216 ssh login attempts, what to do?

Raven Alder raven at oneeyedcrow.net
Wed Oct 13 07:51:28 EST 2004


Heya --

Quoth Carla Schroder (Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:02:15PM -0700):
> I have mixed feelings on this. If we armored our houses the way we armor our 
> computers, we'd be living in underground bunkers. It pisses me off to have to 
> pay so much attention to security. It's like the society in "The Dosadi 
> Experiment", where they lived under non-stop attack. The bozos are the ones 
> who make it necessary to be paranoid.
> 
> But that's the real world, so I shall defer railing and raving for another 
> occasion. 

	Yeah, I pretty much agree, and I am a security geek.  So, as
much as I enjoy making bunkers, it sucks that there are kiddies out
there that cause it to be near-necessary.

Cheers,
Raven

"We need the Internet Bitch-Slap Protocol."
 -- Pixie


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