Comment by mikegioia
9 years ago
This is, in my opinion, the worst part of the story. Anyone who has set up a web-server on the public net knows what happens when you leave ports accessible like this to old, well-known software. There's a good chance people would target her domain/IP looking for exploits and I'd be scared to question just how many people got access to that machine.
I wouldn't say "anyone". Most people, technical or not, have no idea what they're doing when it comes to computer security and don't care enough or take the time to research best practices.
> Anyone who has set up a web-server on the public net
The statement wasn't just anyone
My quoting the word "anyone" was meant in the context of the parent post including its additional filtering of the set of people being referenced.