[Coco] ftp.maltedmedia

Roger Taylor rtaylor at bayou.com
Tue Nov 18 16:34:01 EST 2003


At 06:34 AM 11/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>There is such a huge problem with porn probes (I get several daily on every
>ftp directory) as well as file-sharing probes (fewer) that permissions on
>the incoming directory are very strict. You'd be amazed how many bots out
>there are searching for a home. My own cable ISP had a whole porn site
>buried four directories down; since I helped build the system and my
>stepson did the software, we were pretty perpexed at how they had managed
>to do it -- finally found that although the directories were protected,
>they could still MKDIR and write & read to those. Little configuration
>errors lead to big security issues.
>
>Dennis

Zillions of terabytes going unused on the net, and some bot is going around 
probing for it.  This is what makes the internet so "inter" ? :)   hehehe.







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