From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 24 3:31:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE49337B417; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 03:31:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0066.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.66] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 170K2H-0007It-00; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 03:30:05 -0700 Message-ID: <3CC68910.453A3865@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 03:29:36 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Schultz Cc: Jochem Kossen , frank@exit.com, Greg 'groggy' Lehey , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security through obscurity? (and /etc/defaults/rc.conf changes) References: <200204231454.g3NEsxFR019646@realtime.exit.com> <200204231839.44923.j.kossen@home.nl> <3CC5A7DC.FD06DC11@mindspring.com> <20020423222357.D3593@HAL9000.wox.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Schultz wrote: > Aah...we'd better put uucp back in the base system, then. Never mind > that it might have security problems that we don't know about. :P I can guarantee you that having a computer booted has security problems that we don't know about, so the logical thing to do, from that persepective, is to power everything off. 8^p back at ya... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message