On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:20, Omega -1911 <1911que@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Paul - I am interested in knowing how you prevent intrusion with > your firewall when it is a known fact that post 9/11 companies that > develop such leave ports open for "Big Brother" as required. Remember > "Green Lantern", "Carnivore" and the like are roaming around and used > by various agencies. Even though a firewall reports that the ports are > blocked, they aren't. > > Limiting surfing to only trusted sites does limit vulnerability, but > for the last couple of years, Google, Yahoo, Fbook, Youtube are > compromised by hackers installing "Antivirus 2009", "Antivirus 2010", > etc. viruses. > > With a long list of sites improperly setting cookies, passwords and > usernames are easily compromised when a person visits other sites. > Most importantly, Â how do you verify that the Internet Service > provider has not been compromised? Using SSL to pass passwords is > still not 100 percent safe as people may think because the real > problem lies in what and where the web site stores your information on > the server. > > How do you thwart these possible and other Âintrusion nodes? > A different password on each potentially-weak site? Lasspass is great for this. You can then export and print your Lastpass data, put it on a removable media, or access it via web access. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
