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Notes from Notchcode


4.24.2008

Don't robots in Japan and Latin America have anything better to do?

We serve up notchcode.com here in-house, on an aging server whose octogenarian fitness would make Jack LaLanne proud. I noticed today that, yet again, those pesky hackbots are trying to gain FTP access and do who knows what. I spent a little time playing with them, pinging them back with about 300 open terminal windows, etc., but it really wasn't too satisfying. What was satisfying, however, was knowing that there was no way they were ever, ever getting into our little server. Why? Well, for one thing, Apple has some lovely built-in firewall protections, including a stealth mode. Plus our FTP server is specifically augmented to protect against such malfeaseance. Plus, we have a more sophisticated firewall filter running on top of everything else. All with excellent logging, too. I guess this is a long-winded way of saying that we cherish our clients' projects as much as we cherish the other facets of our relationships with them. Which is to say: a lot. Plus, I can't stand to even think of giving a robot the satisfaction of beating our little engine that could server...

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