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Date:      Wed, 7 Nov 2001 16:26:16 -0500
From:      "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>
To:        "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>, <deepak@ai.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Lockdown of FreeBSD machine directly on Net
Message-ID:  <00e101c167d2$d5846020$6600000a@columbia>
In-Reply-To: <00d301c16794$595ea480$0a00000a@atkielski.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Anthony
> Atkielski
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 8:59 AM
> To: deepak@ai.net; FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Re: Lockdown of FreeBSD machine directly on Net
>
> Deepak writes:
>
> > For years telnetd was considered secure enough
> > to be open to the world, and then all of a sudden
> > it wasn't.
>
> The same is true of UNIX.

	I don't believe anyone has ever considered a base install of UNIX to be
secure.

> > No matter how secure you think your design is,
> > there is no ability to predict/detect new holes
> > that may appear in existing, stable applications.
>
> New holes never appear in existing, stable applications; they are
> either present
> from the start, or never present at all.

	So... given this assertion, you're saying that if I attempted to use Code
Red against an IIS 2.0 installation, it should succeed?  *wonders*

--- Andy


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