Subject: Re: Preventative security features?
To: Dmitri Nikulin <setagllib@optusnet.com.au>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-security
Date: 11/13/2004 07:59:04
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On Nov 13, 2004, at 1:32 AM, Dmitri Nikulin wrote:
> NetBSD is a clear winner of course, but it still found the OS pretty
> accurately.
Maybe it uses stuff like "What version of OpenSSH is running?" to make
some of those determinations (since NetBSD ships with OpenSSH, whereas
"everything on Linux is a 3rd-party package" and thus no version
assumptions about the OS can be made).
I guess it also begs the question .. "So what?"
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
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