[TriLUG] Geek....privacy and data security ------------was: Re: TriLUG Digest, Vol 3940, Issue 1

[Bill Trautman via TriLUG]

What Brian Said.   These twerps can use your system to stage porn etc and
some of that will get you in deep do do with the law.   You really don't
want to find yourself in that sort of a mess.

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 1:24 PM Brian Henning via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> > I feel I am such small potatoes that hackers are not going to spend time
> > on me and my machine.
>
> I can comment on this, because I have had this argument with my dad many
> times over.
>
> Hackers don't care how big or small a target you are, because their work
> isn't focused on *finding you*.  That's all done automatically by programs
> that do nothing but scan huge swaths of internet addresses looking for
> vulnerabilities.  Those programs don't know or care who owns the computer
> they found; they just know "machine at address X is vulnerable."
>
> Secondly, a big hacking tool is still DDoS -- distributed denial of
> service.  This is done by having huge numbers of individual machines all
> over the internet all try to access the same server at the same time.
> Those "huge numbers of machines" are colloquially known as "bot-nets."
> Having your machine in his bot-net is a benefit to a hacker, whether your
> machine is an Amazon Web Services host or a Raspberry Pi in a tiny IoT
> project.
>
> Security matters, regardless of "small potatoes".
>
> Cheers,
> -Brian
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