On Mon, 31 May 2010, Ron Youvan wrote:
> /*snip*
>> Question: Could a hacker gain access to individual machines on this
>> network and examine their contents? If so, how would he/she do it?
>
>> You're welcome to contact me privately with answers, if you don't want
>> the response to appear on a public list. I'm not interested in hacking
>> anyone's network. I'm just curious as to if and how it could be done. If
>> you prefer to simply provide links with the answer, feel free.
>
> I am only a user, but I don't see how anyone can get anything past a NAT
> router. Anything coming in that wasn't requested is discarded.
> (discounting a Trojan)
And someone can't get in if you don't run daemons that allow external
connections, such as sshd or Samba. Of course, if an attacker can execute
commands on your machine he can _run_ said daemons, and then he can read any
file as the user the daemon runs as. Write too, if the daemon supports it.
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