It sucks because some schmuck decided that it was "unauthorized" (hey, whatever happened to research in an academic setting?)
It rocks because it proves that after a sizeable pile of attempts, nada happened.
So much for the big bugaboo about how supposedly easy it was to compromise an OSX box.
(...as I happily go back towards playing with my dual G5 @ home - properly secured behind the firewall like all machines on the home LAN, naturally... except the Windows machine, which isn't allowed to touch the Internet at all except for one URL: Windows Update)
It rocks because it proves that after a sizeable pile of attempts, nada happened.
So much for the big bugaboo about how supposedly easy it was to compromise an OSX box.
(...as I happily go back towards playing with my dual G5 @ home - properly secured behind the firewall like all machines on the home LAN, naturally... except the Windows machine, which isn't allowed to touch the Internet at all except for one URL: Windows Update)
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