Maximum uptime 497 days?

Matt Douhan matt at fruitsalad.org
Tue Jun 29 00:02:58 PDT 2004


On Tuesday 29 June 2004 00.37, David Magda wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2004, at 11:06, Matt Douhan wrote:
> > why ?
> >
> > they may not be public machines at all and be isolated to an
> > environment where
> > security is not the primary concern
>
> Have you not seen the SSH exploit in "The Matrix Reload"?!?! :> How do
> you know some evil-doer wouldn't use an exploit from an internal
> system? Heck, Slammer nailed a couple of networks (e.g., ATM) that were
> supposedly secure in protected networks. No telling how a worm may jump
> fire/airwalls.

fairly easily, the systems in question is not connected to any firewalls nor 
does it have any outside connectivity, no modems, no serial cables no 
nothing, it is simply connected to a mainline pruction line and runs software 
that controls that system, single machine with no network at all, ssh is even 
disabled.

The point being that sometimes uptime is more important than security in some 
instances.

rgds

Matt


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