Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 17:35:53 -0400 From: "Peter C. Lai" <sirmoo@cowbert.2y.net> To: Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org> Cc: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>, SolarfluX <solarflux@ziplip.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup/install over ssh? Message-ID: <20020506173553.A15713@cowbert.2y.net> In-Reply-To: <20020506172523.K71568-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org>; from piechota@argolis.org on Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:27:02PM -0400 References: <20020506231634.A33284@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020506172523.K71568-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org>
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On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:27:02PM -0400, Matt Piechota wrote: > On Mon, 6 May 2002, Miguel Mendez wrote: > > > Hmmkay, let me get this straight, you want to encrypt an anon ftp > > session? And the purpose would be? It's publicly available data you are > > transfering to your box, why in the world would you want to encrypt it? > > I suppose that someone could be watching your ftp traffic, and know you've > installed FreeBSD. Then, no matter how much you obsfucate what your OS > looks like, they'll know it might be FreeBSD. :) > I'd rather advertise my box as FreeBSD and not Linux. Tends to limit the amount of people trying to crack the box using stuff like old RPC hacks :) > -- > Matt Piechota > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- Peter C. Lai University of Connecticut Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology | Undergraduate Research Assistant http://cowbert.2y.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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