Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:42:57 +0000 From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> To: Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Today Message-ID: <200401111442.57782.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <3FFCB0F2.6040206@adept.org> References: <C8FC1BDF-4153-11D8-9D76-003065995254@tasonline.com> <000b01c3d57f$a5c4d910$c701a8c0@diamond> <3FFCB0F2.6040206@adept.org>
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On Thursday 08 January 2004 01:22, Mike Hoskins wrote: > it may be nice to allow such things to be more easily removed for > "security" reasons, but one certainly does have to avoid shooting > themselves in the foot. in places where this is actually desired, it > would probably be better to run a custom distro (which could really just > be freebsd minus some agreed upon things to remove, backed by policy, > enforced by script) or look at embedded/hardening projects which already > do this or make it relatively moot. What??? Remove the compiler for better security??? Many people (including me) can program without a compiler or interpreter. It takes time to get used to, but it's not that hard to enter a complete executable with ELF headers in the hexeditor, or even with cat if you manage to avoid some symbols. Daniela
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