Intranet FTP up and running

[billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]

I'm certain they don't know what security policy is but their lawyers do. Tom is correct. Simply because they are incompetent doesn't mean that you didn't violate the law by doing what you did.

Worse you are bragging about it on a publicly accessible mailing list that is known to be indexed by google.

Bill

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 07:04:43PM -0500, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> Tom Legrady wrote:
> 
> 
> Dont be silly, boy.
> 
> These people have no idea what "security policy" means.
> 
> Shut up and go to play with your toys.
> 
> zb.
> 
> 
> > This strikes me as an effective way to join Randal Schwartz in ther  
> > category of "convicted criminal". You may have a good reason for what  
> > you are doing, it may even be essential to the company's future well- 
> > being, but if you are circumventing security policy and using  
> > unauthorized methods to access systems you have not explicitly been  
> > authorized to access, you are asking for trouble.
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> > On 10-Dec-05, at 2:16 PM, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> > 
> >> Paul King wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks to all who helped out.
> >>> It turns out that there may have been a problem in configuring the
> >>> router. Since I can't seem to find the manual to reset it and get the
> >>> preconfigured username and password I am now using a newer router  I had
> >>> lying around waiting to be used.
> >>
> >>
> >> It is, usually, possible to find standard, factory set usernames  and 
> >> passwords by using google. Many would be surprised by learning  how 
> >> many companies use them ;) Once I had a problem while working  for one 
> >> company: I wanted to connect with the outside world by  using SSH. 
> >> Well, there was no way to get out: the router blocked  port 22. I 
> >> wanted to change its configuration but the response was:  what for do 
> >> you need it? ;) Well.. after some thinking about the  situation I 
> >> decided to not bother them anymore: just found out the  factory set 
> >> password and did changes...
> >>
> >>> Paul King
> >>
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