Site defaced - what next?

[Jeff Kinz]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 11:12:05PM -0400, Anonymous wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 10:37, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 02:15:36AM -0400, ksandre wrote:
> > > 
> > > /me finds it hard to imagine $10K worth of grafiti.
> > 
> > Then you wouldn't mind if someone spray painted your car with some,
> > right?  
> > 
> > Earl Schieb or Maaco can repaint your car for only $500 or so. That
> > makes it a minor defacement which you should just accept as doing your
> > part as a public minded citizen.  :)
> 
> Of course, if you would just park your car *in* the garage, it wouldn't
> be spray-painted, right?

oh, yeah, good idea.  I should have thought of bringing my garage 
AND my barn with me next time I drive down into Boston.  :)

The garage analogy fails, since it equates to disconnecting your web
site from the internet which means it is no longer a web site.  It is
now just a stand-alone system.

Yes, you should implement as much security as you can on your web site
server, but you must still leave some access to it from the outside
world or it becomes useless as a web server.  (Stating the obvious).

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Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.