[NTLUG:Discuss] crackers

[Steve Baker]

Greg E wrote:
> 
>   4.  putting NTLUG behind it insures that not just anybody is being asked
>       to attack your system, the requester is guaranteed that no hard will
>       be done if the system is compromised

You'd have to be real careful what you promised.  Since NTLUG is now an
actual organization, it can (presumably) be sued.  If someone paid NTLUG
to check out their security - and subsequently were sucessfully cracked
-
we could be in the legal doo-doo.  Someone would have to write a nice
airtight agreement with all the usual legal disclaimers.  Worse still
would be if we had an errant member who decided to do a little cracking
and subsequently claimed to be operating the service.

> MadHat wrote:
> >
> > You shouldn't have to pay.

I agree.

We all offer advice and help for free on this and other lists.  Advice
and even testing on anti-cracker measures are just an extension of that.
Once we start charging for one kind of help, where do we stop? Pay us
$10 to set up Samba?  Pay us to $20 install Linux on your machine at
LIP?

I don't think NTLUG needs money that badly.

-- 
Steve Baker                  http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
sjbaker1 at airmail.net (home)  http://www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker
sjbaker at hti.com      (work)