Presumably, that's because only the most technically sophisticated users are online at this point - people who know enough to disallow unrestricted anonymous access to their computers. But as time goes on and Joe Hard Drive plugs his system into a cable modem, it's likely that his nosy neighbors are going to be able find some interesting stuff. Dick Rubinstein and I wrote a simple Perl script to scan the entire subnet, looking for other machines. Talk back to Simson Garfinkel in his column's Threads . Illustration by Dave Plunkert Join the HotWired Network, it's free .
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