Yo Mikael! On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > If you put up an unpatched redhat linux machine (any distribution, > including 7) without security updates on the public internet, I give you > approximately a week before you're hacked or rooted. Most likely it'll > take less than that time. Sure the last naked RedHat 7 we put up only took a week, but the naked RedHat 6.2 we put up 3 weeks ago to 18 days for someone to crack. In both case the new admin thought they would tell security about the new box when the were ready. :-) RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 gem@rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
