Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 03:20:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: Jamie Oulman <jamie@techsquare.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Just lost one to Linux. Compaq server support. Message-ID: <20011220031755.O21508-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <20011220011035.A18793@techsquare.com>
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Jamie Oulman wrote: > redhat like most everything else. can be secured. :s/can/cannot/ Yields: redhat like most everything else. cannot be secured. That's a misleading statement. Nothing can be secured. You can only do your best to protect a system from /known/ vulnerabilities. There's no telling who's out there reading source code and finding exploits without reporting them. It's hopefully not a common scenario, but the possibility exists. There's no way to say for certain that a given box is uncrackable. I know this is not what you meant by your statement, but the distinction is an important one to make IMO. Brandon D. Valentine -- "Iam mens praetrepidans avet vagari." - G. Valerius Catullus, Carmina, XLVI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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