Re: [seul-edu] Slowest Computers and security risks

[Jim Aird <jimaird@hometech.org>]

I was once lernt by a wise man with convincing logic that your 
combination of services may be a risky move.  Particularly anything 
with your confidential student information (I am assuming that your 
MySQL has personal student information) AND web/firewall.  My 
understanding is that the danger is due to the proximity of the 
services.  Once compromised your Apache or firewall apps could allow 
sensitive data to be accessible by unauthorized users.

Jim Aird
CTO, HomeTech Charter School


On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 11:12 AM, Dirk Schouten wrote:

> Hi,
>> At home I set up a apaceh web server on a p200 with 32mb of RAM,  
>> it's great
>> for testing my own web pages.  I did this cos I was bored on friday 
>> evening.
>
> Our primary school server is a P200 with 32 mb ram.
> It runs apache, sendmail, router, firewall, MySQL, PHP. No problems.
> Dirk
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