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Chapter 35 Protecting Your Network from Hackers and Snoops

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You can omit any of these measures, of course, if you weigh what you have at risk against

what these efforts will cost you, and decide that the benefit isn’t worth the effort.

What I’m describing sounds like a lot of work, and it can be if you take full-fledged meas-

ures in a business environment. Nevertheless, even if you’re a home user, I encourage you

to consider each of the following steps and to put them into effect with as much diligence

as you can muster. Just think of that poor sleeping soul whose hard disk I could have erased

that morning at 1:00 a.m. (If you missed this poignant ...