Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 10:22:20 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Cc: erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: replace uname -a informational string Message-ID: <20151024102220.72af9738.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <562b3cd3.1J6RucNX8xldmcgb%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <20151023090805.5484ce9b@freyja.zeit4.iv.bundesimmobilien.de> <1445622325.1169.29.camel@michaeleichorn.com> <20151023225424.49220466.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20151024080936.0ff26783@X220.alogt.com> <1445658972.13154.44.camel@michaeleichorn.com> <20151024130848.0a7e946f@X220.alogt.com> <562b3cd3.1J6RucNX8xldmcgb%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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--Sig_/IloAHA9NlUaregQxepvlLSH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am Sat, 24 Oct 2015 01:09:55 -0700 perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) schrieb: > [restored the OP's Cc as requested in the initial post] >=20 > Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote: >=20 > > As somebody else has mentioned, changing the copyright notice in > > the kernel would have a legal impact. =20 >=20 > As the System 5 settlement of some years ago emphasized, concealing > the origin of the code is one of the very few things that may *not* > legally be done under the BSD license. >=20 > Not that this should be at all a problem: security that depends > on such obscurities is worth very little against any but the most > casual attacker. Well, well, this gets now out of hands and I do not want to be bothered by = this law gibberish. I understand the importance of Copyright notes and the world sho= uld definitely know that I/we are using FreeBSD as our platform and not a commerical UNIX = or even Linux, but there are some minor aspects I wish not to float around the world. I do not want to hide the copyright notes. I simply want to hide the machin= e on which the kernel and world has been built since this machine is in most security appl= iances not the machine the binaries are running on! So I guess this is definitely somethin= g worth to hide, since "uname(8)" reveals informations someone wants to hide. Second, it is, for the impact of skript kiddies, somehow of use to hide the= OS' revision/version. And by the way, in some areas within the structure of companies or governme= nt hiding such informations is a feature that is explicitely or part of a catalogue of asp= ects to meet. --Sig_/IloAHA9NlUaregQxepvlLSH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWKz+8AAoJEOgBcD7A/5N8DZ8IAI6Gk54ScyN3gtzlca7yQPgF TPcqz3XWR+6BDQqY6Yt+yGa7JMwEof0VFQaEs3F++0EJnv7xbbLPuNBzWRnjfScQ MT0udG/cSe6OSO34Nf/u6qt80DiB7M3u9rMNnJjCvE8F+f+4bKykaXCfg3IOwchs h2mGTqLU7vyWfeQ33wKnBnJ9hpCqeg2b2q9AjqHTdmSD/Q8w4zID2DlOyaI8P6Fx id0wk826tt0sYyjznFOMtNpXRKyAKq9iFhVFIAaH7qqG16sm9iqlelxn8uSmUzZe UDZYec1xZ4viRgUIIq3/2t4lel7iazMWj1jz0Vs2Efycr6VN5pbkGYSV+LRHNGg= =Si6v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/IloAHA9NlUaregQxepvlLSH--
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