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Subject: Novel (yuck!) security ??
From: "Craig A. Finseth" <fin @ unet . umn . edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 08:15:08 -0500
To: SMOUBRAY @ dor10 . mdor . state . mn . us
Cc: Firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: "Steve Moubray"'s message of Wed, 31 Aug 1994 16:53:24 CST6CDT <A3D3767524 @ dor10 . mdor . state . mn . us>

	...
   There are some protocol issues when using Novell on WANs but I've 
   heard of very few security issues.  Novell 4.x seems to be extremely 
   secure and although I'm not a hacker, the ones that I've known well 
   (some of them have been arrested for hacking) were never very 
   successful bypassing NetWare security.  They bragged about many UNIX 
	...

Of course, this is a tautology.  Since most Novell systems have not
been "exposed" on the Internet, how could they be attacked?

I suspect that Novell will go the same as any other "high quality" OS
(e.g., VMS and the IBM mainframe OS's): once it becomes an interesting
target, it will be shot full of holes.

   operating systems, a few IBM mainframes and MAC networks but never 
   bragged about Novell exploits.  Even when I asked they didn't seem to 
   like it much.

This is exactly the point.  You don't get bragging points for breaking
into a Novell server.  Today.  If that should change, all bets are
off.

Craig


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