Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 7 Nov 2001 14:58:53 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
To:        <deepak@ai.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Lockdown of FreeBSD machine directly on Net
Message-ID:  <00d301c16794$595ea480$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <GPEOJKGHAMKFIOMAGMDIIEOIGKAA.deepak@ai.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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.

> 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.




To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?00d301c16794$595ea480$0a00000a>