Sonic.net

digitalbitstream wrote: You can't cloak anything. Put your effort somewhere productive instead.

Somehow this reminded me of http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/r ... #nostealth

Rather than saying "put your effort somewhere productive instead", why don't you say where that "somewhere" is?

Or is your point that closing ports is enough and nothing else is needed? I have been under the impression for years that closed ports can be breached, without knowing enough to know how they can be breached.

rrichard wrote:Rather than saying "put your effort somewhere productive instead", why don't you say where that "somewhere" is? Or is your point that closing ports is enough and nothing else is needed? I have been under the impression for years that closed ports can be breached, without knowing enough to know how they can be breached.

Some sample somewheres:
Get a password manager and use random passwords.
Shred your important recyclable paper.
Maintain security patches.
Hide any Windows boxes behind a nat router. Do not connect Windows directly to the net.
Change your WiFi password every so often.
Run anti-virus software.
Don't visit porn sites or click on phishing email.
Check your credit report periodically ( http://obviously.com/junkmail/ )
Earthquake strap your large bookcases.
Cache water for emergencies.
Wear a condom at appropriate times.
Look both ways before crossing the street.
Pass on the "lawn darts" at garage sales.
Say something nice to a neighbor, join a CERT group nearby.

Closed ports can only be breached if there's a bug in the OS (plenty of those in Windows).

digitalbitstream wrote:Closed ports can only be breached if there's a bug in the OS (plenty of those in Windows).

That's the most useful (to me, at least) sentence in this whole exchange. Thank you.

Is the current thinking that it's OK to connect a Mac directly to one of the rental modem's ports (assigned to a fixed IP)?

I'm used to having a router (been through quite a few of them over the past years) and NAT for the home network, and a different router for the work-from-home network, each using a fixed IP.

That got us up to using three of the eight fixed IPs (one for the modem, as I understand it)

I'd like to isolate one machine's connection to Sonic (a Mac; probably reformat that drive and install nothing but the OS, to get a known clean computer)

I'd like to be able to get log files from that computer's connection, if the rental modem provides log files.

Trying to figure out how to know what I"m doing here.

Is the Broadcom chip an issue? (not for my account, as I had Sonic turn off WiFi when the rental modem was set up)
But is it an issue for the rental modems generally?
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