12 Dec
2012
12 Dec
'12
5:09 p.m.
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 04:53:23PM +0000, Dom Latter wrote:
On 08/12/12 21:36, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
Yeah that is sort of what I was thinking.
I feel like people need regular reminders, and there will be new
customers too, so a single historical posting or a wiki page that is
never looked at won't do it.
I was thinking that seeing that an actual customer got compromised
and that the threat is not hypothetical might provide a useful shock
to the system as it were..
I don't want to annoy people however.
Just seeing "this box got rooted and sent
out tons of spam" isn't
all that useful, as we're all aware (or, should be, maybe I'm
arguing against myself here) that machines get exploited all the time
and do Bad Things, but seeing WHY, and maybe even some of the process
for tracing down the root cause would be handy.
Yes, but the "this box got rooted" post might still be a useful
reminder to Pay Attention, and might provoke useful discussion
on how best to avoid these things. One other thing might be useful - knowing the
"population size",
if that is possible.
There are currently 422 active customer VPSes if that is what you
mean.
Cheers,
Andy
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