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At 05:35 PM 5/6/2002 -0400, Peter C. Lai wrote:
>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 :)

I disagree.  My FeeeBSD systems saw lots and lots of rpc and other 'linux 
like' exploitation scans before I just filtered most ports at my firewall.

Don't rely on the sophistication of a kiddie's script as a security paradigm.

>--
>Peter C. Lai
>University of Connecticut
>Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology | Undergraduate Research Assistant
>http://cowbert.2y.net/

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