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Subject: Re: OS/2 and firewalls?
From: peter @ nmti . com (Peter da Silva)
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 09:25:30 -0500 (CDT)
To: firewall @ mistik . express . net
Cc: isdmill @ gatekeeper . ddp . state . me . us, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <3037f8cd . mistik @ mistik . express . net> from "firewall @ mistik . express . net" at Aug 20, 95 11:08:58 pm

> > One reason that 90% of breakins occur on Unix systems is that 90% of the 
> > systems on the Internet are unix based.  And no, you can't break into any 

> I think that is an overgeneralization, especially nowadays.  Do you have
> any idea how many warp based systems are part of internet on and off or
> permanently?

How many of them are servers?

(I know he said systems, but it's the servers that get attacked: they're where
 the interesting things are, and they're just sitting there, and they're the
 ones running lots of protocols...)


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