From: "Geo" 

Ok so both you and Bob are running them off the net, I had one friend who
had unknowingly exposed his to the net and he ended up with a ton of
illegal software on it after someone rooted it and was using it for an ftp
warez server.

Geo.

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:41c2ef57{at}w3.nls.net...
> The full-opsys flashes have mentioned a couple of security holes.  I've
never
> heard of an exploit aimed at these gutted-Linux boxes specifically.  (And
> they're all over the place now - storage gizmos, NATboxen).
>
> Mine are behind a constantly varying selection of SOHO minirouters, often
> without SPI or special hardening, as I check out equipment.  They're never
> nekkid on the net.  OTOH, a SNAP! by default has open Apple and Sun
shares, as
> well as NETBIOS-NETBEUI and -TCP. There's a wide open FTP server and kind
of
> web server.  WAN admin is obviously turned off.
>
> Knock wood.  My IP changes only when I swap routers.
>

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