And then it dawned on me that by simply scanning subnets your average script kiddie didn't need to know what my site was all about at all. He or she could just scan en masse for open ports and an easy way in and then plant a root kit for laughs or turn my machine into a spam forwarding station. I got a copy of SATAN and ran it against my own site. I was astonished. Every port, that could be, was open and identifiable to anyone on the internet. (There were these problems with my logs, too, but that is another story.)
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