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To: Cooters who wrote (2368)	2/12/2000 10:27:00 PM
From: kas1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10934

Also, how would a hacker obtain information on the filer OS, which is a single purpose OS and surely not available in the public domain. Windows and Solaris aren't public domain either. (though Solaris is open-source -- which, depending on which school of system security you come from, makes it either more vulnerable or less vulnerable to attack) The most obvious way to get info about Filers is by working as an administrator of such a filer, or even working for NTAP. Also, many hacker-type people specialize in finding strange "appliances" on corporate networks and then remotely picking apart exactly what they are. I would guess that the Filer OS isn't built from scratch by NTAP... it's probably based on something else. (just like PalmOS is actually based on Unix) Lastly, just because of human nature, security on a specialized device like a filer tends to be pretty lax -- find out the administrator's spouse's name and you're pretty much in. :-) Fun link: l0pht.com Disclaimer: I am fascinated by the technological side of hacking, but I am totally against it from an ethical standpoint. L0pht is actually one of the very few hacker groups who have some sense of ethics (unlike Cult of Dead C0w, who put the Chernobyl virus on a PR cd they gave to reporters)