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Re: VNC Security
From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:05:07 +0200
On 2005-08-16 rebootd () adelphia net wrote:
If you think you have a point here: you don't.
In any of your scenarios VNC is just as easily installed as simply
re-enabled.
... and the friend could just as easily take a sledge hammer to his
box. I think the point is not to control all possibilities, but that
if you are going to "help" a friend, you should at least not make
yourself directly responsible for the insecurity of his network.
Taken care of by making VNC *not* start automatically.
Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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erase the hard disk, then reinstall Mac OS X and your backed up files."
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