Grex Oldcoop Conference

Item 281: How secure is Grex?

Entered by richard on Tue Sep 13 19:04:57 2005:

Grex's Labor Day Massacre which caused a week's downtime and apparently 
a big mess, ought to be a wake up call.  Is Grex's security outdated?  
Is Grex more vulnerable to attack now therefore than its ever been 
before?  Is the only way for grex to secure itself from attacks to do 
drastic things like closing newuser, eliminating email and .etc?  One 
hates to think that some wiseass juvenile hacker with too much time on 
his hands can attack grex and take it down that easily.  Perhaps the 
staff ought to recommend new security measures?
20 responses total.
#1 of 20 by naftee on Tue Sep 13 20:52:55 2005:

Tell your son to keep AWAY from the keyboard, richard.

#2 of 20 by nharmon on Wed Sep 14 00:29:48 2005:

Grex isn't secure...never has been, never will be. But this isn't to say
that we shouldn't take new security measures. I'm wondering how often
the system's security logs are reviewed. This might be a way for some of
us to help out the system administrators, as it wouldn't require us to
have any higher security authorization.

#3 of 20 by tod on Wed Sep 14 00:39:25 2005:

Logs? We don't need no steenkeeng logs

#4 of 20 by nharmon on Wed Sep 14 02:13:23 2005:

Todd, you didn't work for Enron, did you? 8D

#5 of 20 by twenex on Wed Sep 14 09:07:52 2005:

What's brown, smelly, and floats in space?

The Captain's Log.

#6 of 20 by tod on Wed Sep 14 14:33:27 2005:

re #4
My wife worked for Arthur Andersen (which did nothing wrong.)

#7 of 20 by cross on Wed Sep 14 20:36:42 2005:

We keep tons of logs.  We reduced the size of one of the user partitions
to create more space for logs.  Of course, no one ever looks at them.

#8 of 20 by tod on Wed Sep 14 23:36:39 2005:

I've got a log you can check out
www.ratemypoo.com

#9 of 20 by scholar on Thu Sep 15 00:26:48 2005:

sometimes, i have enourmous turds.

a foot long or more.

no shitting.

#10 of 20 by happyboy on Fri Sep 16 00:31:34 2005:

dewd!  i'm growing a hairy set of bewbs!

#11 of 20 by mcnally on Fri Sep 16 00:40:58 2005:

 re #9:  Your last sentence seems to contradict your first one.

#12 of 20 by happyboy on Fri Sep 16 18:00:33 2005:

look!

/points to manbewbs and jumps up and down like a whiskery
 suzanne summers

#13 of 20 by mcnally on Fri Sep 16 21:12:44 2005:

 <shriek>aaaaarrrrrgghhh..  MY EYES!</shriek>

#14 of 20 by happyboy on Mon Sep 19 08:13:25 2005:

looky here mike...I CAN MAKE HAIRY CLEAVAGE!

#15 of 20 by naftee on Mon Sep 19 21:38:43 2005:

mikey does you like the hairy meat

#16 of 20 by albaugh on Mon Sep 19 21:42:47 2005:

resp:0 implies that the "trashing" of /etc (including the password file)
was due to hacking / vandalism.  Is that in fact true?  Or was it flaky
hardware or software?

#17 of 20 by gelinas on Tue Sep 20 01:40:15 2005:

This item was entered by richard, who really is not in a position to make
any definitive statements to cause of the outage.

Personally, I think it's flakey software, newuser to be specific.  But I don't
know what is flakey about it.

#18 of 20 by naftee on Tue Sep 20 03:00:26 2005:

i think richard's son entered it

#19 of 20 by scholar on Mon Sep 26 13:00:58 2005:

I think kerlinas is flakey.

And a fag.

#20 of 20 by jesuit on Wed May 17 02:15:45 2006:

TROGG IS DAVID BLAINE

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