VanLUG Email Archive
Curt Sampson (cjs@portal.ca)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:33:54 -0700 (PDT)
On 20 Oct 1998, Brian Edmonds wrote:
> Useful security lies not in saying "turn it off", but in asking "do I
> need this?" followed by "do I understand this?" If the answer to either
> is no, then you should probably turn it off.
Right. And, in fact, good time is *very* important to network
security. If you don't know with enough accuracy what time an attack
started and stopped, it may make it impossible to find the perpetrator
of that attack.
cjs
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