[LUNI] Making a private network somewhat public.

[Martin Maney]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:47:52AM -0600, Richard Reina wrote:
> I appreciate the responses.  To make sure I understand correctly.

The biggest threat to most systems comes from insiders; from this it
follows that running old, unsupported OSes is a bad idea.

Home market routers are cheap and convenient.  IMO they're probably
*less* safe than a Linux box that's been secured and is running a
supported OS version.  Heck, lots of the consumer boxes have been based
on Linux - generally older versions of the kernel, and without timely
updates (or any after the next new model has come out).

You would be far better served paying someone to help you secure the
systems than trying to break into it after the fact.

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