Re: Linux Like Winows

[Jim Jackson <nospam [at] scs.leeds.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Richard wrote:

> sheflug - http://home.freeuk.net/shef.lug
>
> Stephen
>
> > The recent Internet Audit found 350,000 Unix-like machines out there
> > (out of 24 million) that were vulnerable to at least one of 10 common
> > rootshell exploits. (Assuming that wasn't a hoax of some kind.) How
> > many more are vulnerable to others? How about you? Do you know your
> > vulnerabilities?
>
> I can give you a longish list of security sites that I don't like to
> circulate around the internet. Security is all about being informed
> and understanding the risks involved.
>

And security through obscurity only takes you a little way. Any security
issues with open source software/protocols has to be up front and open too
- otherwise we are hampered in the fight against the badguys trying to get
in. crack/satan and other tools have helped sysadmins, developers and
distributors (except redhat or are they getting better :-() tighten up
security no end.

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