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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Saturday, November 16, 2002 12:44:13 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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+!Links
+* http://m.bacarella.com/papers/secsoft/html/secsoft.html
!Passwords
Passwords are like girlfriends (or boyfriends!) - you shouldn't share them with other people, and you should get a new one every now and again.
See ChoosingPasswords for information on creating safe, random passwords.
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* Don't run unnecessary services (called "daemons" in UNIX) that allow internet connections - some distributions turn these on by default. Examples are mail or news servers and printer daemon (lpd). If you want to see a list of the daemons running on your machine, at a command prompt type:%%% netstat -aAinet%%%The lines that say "LISTEN" means a daemon is waiting for connections on the specified port.
!Application / General Encryption
GNU Privacy Guard ([GPG]) is an encryption program compatible with Pretty Good Privacy ([PGP]). It uses public-key cryptography, and many email clients have hooks that allow you to fairly easily encrypt and "sign" email. See our [GPG/PGPNotes] page.
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!Wireless Network Security:
See WirelessNetworkSecurityNotes
