I ask out of ignorance

What's to prevent the bad guys from accessing my hard drive via my IP
address?
SS

On 11/21/2018 6:34 AM, wrote:
What's to prevent the bad guys from accessing my hard drive via my IP
address?
SS

Nothing except your security software, Windows Defender, McAfee, or
what ever you are using

The other thing to consider is what would be the bad guys benefit. Is
there anything on your disk that would ruin a political figure, could be
sold, etc?

Are you rich enough that you would be able to pay a significant ransom
for your data.

I am poor and have tons of family pictures and genealogy information on
my computer, I also run McAfee so I don't worry about it. I also
have my data backed up to three independent disk.


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wrote:
What's to prevent the bad guys from accessing my hard drive via my IP
address?
SS

A Trojan horse is the best way.

1) You distribute your email address freely.
2) I craft an "invoice email" with a special attachment.
3) If you're a noob, you double click my attachment.
It has an FTP program that transfers your C: files
to my hard drive here. Even attaching a copy of
Back Orifice to the email, would get me what I want.

It's a silly example, but the more likely scenario.
Basically, I rely on your lack of "Safe Hex", to help
me get what I need. You accept my Trojan Horse, and
now I'm inside your perimeter.

Trying to "crawl into your machine directly", is a less
likely scenario. However, if you own a router with a
known compromise, maybe you show up as an attack
target when someone does a Shodan scan. Maybe you're
unlucky that way. For example, some routers have a
password on the WAN side, which a lot of people
don't even know it's there. I remember one poster,
his router was running "demo firmware" from the
chipset maker (not even basic security fixes done),
and it was as porous as a sieve. You could get into
one of those, easy. This would be a tiny brand without
a track record. Probably a few bucks cheaper at the
local computer store. Once inside the router though,
I don't know what my next move would be. I'm not
very good at this stuff.

Paul

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 06:34:39 -0500, wrote:

What's to prevent the bad guys from accessing my hard drive via my IP
address?
SS

Unless you've gone out of your way to open things up, an unsolicited
request from the internet won't even make it to your computer. It
will be stopped by your router because it doesn't know where to send
it inside your network. If your router has been set to forward
unsolicited requests to your computer (port forwarding), the computer
should still reject unsolicited requests from the internet. If you
opened up your router and installed software that allows unsolicited
requests (for example, IIS), then you can can start worrying.

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 07:09:19 -0500, Keith Nuttle
wrote:

On 11/21/2018 6:34 AM, wrote:
What's to prevent the bad guys from accessing my hard drive via my IP
address?
SS

Nothing except your security software, Windows Defender, McAfee, or
what ever you are using

The other thing to consider is what would be the bad guys benefit. Is
there anything on your disk that would ruin a political figure, could be
sold, etc?

Are you rich enough that you would be able to pay a significant ransom
for your data.

I am poor and have tons of family pictures and genealogy information on
my computer, I also run McAfee so I don't worry about it. I also
have my data backed up to three independent disk.


Just concerned about my banking and associated password files
tx

SS

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 08:18:27 -0500, wrote:



Just concerned about my banking and associated password files
tx

SS

You should use a more secure password and don't put it in a file.

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On 11/21/2018 7:34 PM, wrote:
What's to prevent the bad guys from accessing my hard drive via my IP
address?
SS


Easy, just cut the cable connecting your hard disk to internet! I think
these hackers haven't mastered witchcraft... yet!

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On 21/11/2018 11:34, wrote:
What's to prevent the bad guys from accessing my hard drive via my IP
address?
SS
First the intelligence of the person trying that stupid thing; Second,
you may not be worth spending time on. People will only do something if
there is some money to be made. All the evidence suggests that you are
jobless, high on drugs and habitual shop-lifter. Who in their right
mind would waste time on you!!!!!!.

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😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:
All the evidence suggests that you are jobless, high on drugs and
habitual shop-lifter.Â* Who in their right mind would waste time on
you!!!!!!.

How charming. You must be a stupid Trumper.

On 2018-11-21 11:02 a.m., Weatherman wrote:
😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:
All the evidence suggests that you are jobless, high on drugs and
habitual shop-lifter.Â* Who in their right mind would waste time on
you!!!!!!.

How charming. You must be a stupid Trumper.

More than half of the United States is a "stupid Trumper" who voted for
the man who led the country to its best economic performance in decades
as well as the best unemployment numbers for blacks, latinos and in
general.

The fact that you consider these people to be _stupid_ considering those
facts says a lot about your own intelligence.

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Not a Trumper, but no way I could vote for the unindited criminal known as
the "Hildabeast".

Weatherman, welcome to the plonk bin with all the other members there. I'm
sure you'll find a lot of friends there.

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:17:56 -0500, SilverSlimer wrote:

On 2018-11-21 11:02 a.m., Weatherman wrote:
? Good Guy ? wrote:
All the evidence suggests that you are jobless, high on drugs and
habitual shop-lifter.* Who in their right mind would waste time on
you!!!!!!.

How charming. You must be a stupid Trumper.

More than half of the United States

Last I heard, Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.
That doesn't sound like more than half.

is a "stupid Trumper" who voted for
the man who led the country to its best economic performance in decades
as well as the best unemployment numbers for blacks, latinos and in
general.

The fact that you consider these people to be _stupid_ considering those
facts says a lot about your own intelligence.

Stupid is not the (primary) word I'd use.

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:57:21 -0600, Char Jackson, tweeted:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:17:56 -0500, SilverSlimer wrote:

On 2018-11-21 11:02 a.m., Weatherman wrote:
? Good Guy ? wrote:
All the evidence suggests that you are jobless, high on drugs and
habitual shop-lifter.Â* Who in their right mind would waste time on
you!!!!!!.

How charming. You must be a stupid Trumper.

More than half of the United States

Last I heard, Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.
That doesn't sound like more than half.

Trump had less dead people, Mexican citizens voting for him.


is a "stupid Trumper" who voted for
the man who led the country to its best economic performance in decades
as well as the best unemployment numbers for blacks, latinos and in
general.

The fact that you consider these people to be _stupid_ considering those
facts says a lot about your own intelligence.

Stupid is not the (primary) word I'd use.

Use "not me".

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On 2018-11-21 6:57 p.m., Char Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:17:56 -0500, SilverSlimer wrote:

On 2018-11-21 11:02 a.m., Weatherman wrote:
? Good Guy ? wrote:
All the evidence suggests that you are jobless, high on drugs and
habitual shop-lifter.Â* Who in their right mind would waste time on
you!!!!!!.

How charming. You must be a stupid Trumper.

More than half of the United States

Last I heard, Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes.
That doesn't sound like more than half.

And how many of them were illegal voters, something that Democrats made
sure would be able to vote during the midterms as well?

Whether you like it or not, the Electoral College was designed to ensure
that the entire country got a say over who the president was. There's a
reason why IT was chosen over the popular vote because the founding
fathers knew that it would otherwise result in places like New York and
California, their cities being heavily populated and highly liberal,
deciding the fate of the country regardless of what the smaller areas
wanted. In Canada too, seats decide who leads the country and not the
popular vote because pure Democracy is extremely flawed and very much
prone to abuse as the Democrats keep showing us with their continued
attempts to steal elections, many of which they _certainly_ stole in the
midterms.

Besides, the United States is a _republic_ so the very fact that you
brought up "the popular vote" suggests that you have no idea how your
country works and that you bought into the leftist excuse your media
system has been pushing from day one as to why "The Chosen One" Hillary
didn't win.

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"SilverSlimer" wrote

| Whether you like it or not, the Electoral College was designed to ensure
| that the entire country got a say over who the president was.

Actually it's the opposite. The Electoral College
has us voting for special electors who theoretically
vote in accord with our votes, but they're not
bound to do so. It was established so that hayseeds
wouldn't be allowed to vote in an idiot who charmed
them. Since ignorant rural people couldn't realistically
make an informed vote, there was a safeguard to
allow the intelligentsia to override them.
How ironic that it helped Trump get elected.

(And no, I'm not a Hillary fan. But replacing a plutocrat
insider with a psychopath is not a solution. It's a frivolous
reaction.)

There was no belief that true democracy was feasible
with an uneducated public. In fact, I once read a
quote from Jefferson that the whole idea of the American
gov't they were designing assumed a religious, moral
populace. He didn't think it could work otherwise.