re: #27 Fozzie Bear

The thing is, you really don’t have very much to fear from hackers if you are using up-to-date tech, and you aren’t running oodles of different services (that you don’t actually need) on the same machine. You can get DOS’ed, sure, but if you do things correctly, you aren’t terribly likely to get hacked.

The VAST majority of “hackers” out there aren’t doing anything other than exploiting already-identified, known vulnerabilities. Some tiny number of them are actually discovering flaws through code injection, buffer overflows, etc, but really, 99.9% of them get in because people use old software and weak passwords.

You’re forgetting the easy way to hack: ask (or trick or be) a guy that works there to let you in, virtually or physically. Social engineering. Dudes on /b/ often have jobs in IT!