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Subject: Re: Air Force Web Site Hacked
From: Thomas Leitner <tom @ finwds01 . tu-graz . ac . at>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 13:20:11 +0100 (MET)
To: Michael Idengren <midengre @ stetson . edu>
Cc: Christopher Klaus <cklaus @ iss . net>, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine . SUN . 3 . 94 . 961230235621 . 9650A-100000 @ tophat>

On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Michael Idengren wrote:

> > With so many government web sites getting hacked, you think they would
> > spend a little more time securing them.  The tools exist to secure the
> > web sites.
> 
> I don't know about the rest of you but I agree with the idea of putting a
> webserver on a CD-ROM.  I think the government can afford to write a new
> CD every time they need to update someone's email address anyways :)

:-) 

Seriously: why not just put it on a separate disk which is mounted
read-only?  If you want to go further, you could buy a suitable harddisk
which can be write-locked by hardware. 

Happy new year to everyone on the list.

Tom

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