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Old 15th June 2011, 23:50     #126
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Originally Posted by drone
Bluntly, nothing is secure. You allow data to pass between the Internet and some systems, no matter how indirect, and there will be a way to attack it.

But looking past that, sure, isolation of roles is a fairly common band-aid to mitigate and contain risks, but it's not a be-all-end-all solution. It's not a magic bullet which fixes everything else wrong with your setup. And you could build something which was actually more secure on a single server than a poorly implemented tiered approach.

Pretty sure Sony had more than one server, didn't do them a shitload of good did it?
Well, I think the last few pages have been about how Labour's servers weren't attacked, rather they were casually perused by innocent victims who unwittingly stumbled across and naively acquired the data. Victims who are being made out to be evil villains by left-wing nutters on this forum.

So having the services split between boxes would have certainly protected innocent National party members in this case, right?
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