[svlug] BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word

[Don Marti]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:50:48AM -0800, kmself at ix.netcom.com wrote:

> > One more thought on the subject of firewalls...nobody has ever explained
> > to me why, if you don't trust a machine or machines to be on the
> > Internet, why you don't just put it in private address space with no NAT
> > or other route out, and use application-level proxies?
> 
> Sorry.  How are your app-level proxies accessing remote content w/o
> network access?

Two interfaces, no routing between them, one on the private network,
one on the wild and wooly Internet or better, a "firewalled" (somehow)
network.

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Don Marti                                    dmarti at linuxjournal.com
Technical Editor, Linux Journal                         650-962-9601

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.