Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:57:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Jochem Kossen <j.kossen@home.nl> Cc: Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security through obscurity? (was: ssh + compiled-in SKEY support considered harmful?) Message-ID: <200204231457.g3NEvJeL020473@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <200204231212.34754.j.kossen@home.nl>
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Jochem Kossen wrote: > It does work. But i think you mean the tcp connections. > Does that mean you vote for enabling _all_ services? They don't work out > of the box as well... This is ridiculous. You know as well as I do that that's _not_ what Greg means. Just don't change stuff out from under the users. > > And don't tell me that X11 is an add-on and luxury. > I agree, but the tcp connections IS an add-on luxury imho Wrong. It's the way it works. > > We are living in the 21st century. > That's right, the century of virii, DoS attacks, worms, and > scriptkiddiots. Then fix the security holes at your end and leave the rest of to fix them the way _we_ want to. Don't impose your "fix" on the rest of us by fiat. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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