Well then, how about:

"HTTPD/version (None of your Damned Business)"

or

"Something/sometime (What's it to you?)"

I'm just having too much fun with this. Sorry. ;) More seriously, I agree that the standard announce line should stay.

- P

Armando M. Baratti wrote:
I agree with Matthias, it's not obscurity, it's the same when a firewall put a port in stealth mode, it just doesn't respond to a request to that port.

Armando

Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:

Tobias Kieslich schrieb:

On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 22:05:59 +0200
Matthias-Christian Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Jep I agree. But notice that this is a _big_ security risk because the cracker knows which distribution you're running and can use distribution specific security holes (e.g. unpatched security holes or security holes in old software).


I like to second that, since a line like "Apache (latest version)" reads for
a potential hacker like "I know my business, I'm uptodate". From a
psychological point of view this is a good argument. The other way around,
"Archlinux (known as the most secure Distro ever)" would have a similar
effect. We work on it...


-tobbi

_______________________________________________
arch mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch



But Arch Linux isn't a secure distribution and I think mentioning that it is an Arch Linux Server is not advantageous in this case.
Sometimes anonymity is more advantageous than you think.


Matthias-Christian Ott

_______________________________________________
arch mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch



_______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

_______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Reply via email to