On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 05:06 -0700, nate wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx # I've masked out MAC address for this post > > Out of curiosity why ? You are aware that someone knowing > your MAC address outside your local network is fairly > useless right? Yes. I just do it out of habit so I don't forget something which could lead to exposure. Habit developed long ago. > > I just find it funny how people tend to mask MAC/IP/host/domain > names. If your system is not secure, and is on the internet, > people on this list(and those scanning the archives etc) are > the least of your worries. Long, long ago, I had a block of IPs and registered domain. Worries about hacking were relatively new then, I was even more ignorant about this stuff than I am now, and my gateway/mail unit got hacked. I immediately split services, hardened the gateway and, in a continual process of "learning from my mistakes", decided that *always* masking some site-specific information would help reduce the chance that I would forget on some critical piece down the road. If nothing else, since I don't mask *all* site-specific data, it causes me to briefly think. Since "hoomons" are, indeed, creatures of habit, it is best to reinforce good habits, even to the point of overkill IMO. I would rather do unnecessary work and be safer than be lazy and maybe get burned at the most inopportune time (seems to be the most common time for *everything* bad to happen). > <snip site information> Since, as I've often stated, I'm really ignorant about a lot of stuff, I feel no regrets about taking a little more conservative approach to this sort of stuff. > nate > <snip> -- Bill