From owner-freebsd-security Mon May 6 14:36:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from d188h80.mcb.uconn.edu (d188h80.mcb.uconn.edu [137.99.188.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FC7437B403 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 14:35:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 15792 invoked by uid 1001); 6 May 2002 21:35:53 -0000 Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 17:35:53 -0400 From: "Peter C. Lai" To: Matt Piechota Cc: Miguel Mendez , SolarfluX , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup/install over ssh? Message-ID: <20020506173553.A15713@cowbert.2y.net> Reply-To: peter.lai@uconn.edu References: <20020506231634.A33284@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020506172523.K71568-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020506172523.K71568-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org>; from piechota@argolis.org on Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:27:02PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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