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Originally Posted by ladida
There's nothing to bite on. People that do security are payed alot of money for what they know.
To answer you, what you wrote up there, is like saying "You have to lock your front door when you leave house". Anyone that knows anything on setting up servers knows all that (so that would bring all the techs at any hosting company). However, that is not the way security is breached, and that is not the thing hackers look for, or how they keep access to servers. All of that, and 100 other things you can go google right now on "how to secure a server" will do you jack shit on protecting the server. All it will do however is give you a false sense of security. Same as when hosting techs boast about this and that certificate they have in setting up servers.
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I love this place. Its free information - good information at that - and yet people still bitch about it.
Clearly enough people around here DON'T KNOW that stuff or we wouldn't have so many issues with this shit. Most hacking can be stopped with simple fixes. Most hackers are actually script kiddies who look for exploits in software that people didn't bother to patch because they were too god damned ignorant or lazy. If someone wants in, they are getting in no matter what.
I never said the guide was complete and in fact I said it was intended to be a post where other people came and added onto it with their two cents and eventually we DO have a complete guide because most people (unlike you) don't know everything. Yes, security professionals know alot of good info. No one here hires them for the most part. Again, otherwise we wouldn't be here in the first place.
Checking some of this stuff will help people figure out if there is a problem sometimes and may help them stop something from continuing on. But you know everything it looks like, so write your own damn guide and put mine to shame. I'm willing to accept defeat if it actually happens.