On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:56:07AM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 17:44, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 07:54:55PM -0600, Timothy Bolz wrote:
> > > I had a person who is a Cisco certified network guy tell me unix boxes are 
> > > easier to get into than windows.
> > 
> > That's a question with a lot of "It depend if ..."s.
> > 
> Specifically, say, kernels with smashable stacks,

http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/

The OpenBSD install floppies have stack-smash protection.

> I've noticed a significant lag between source-update fixes of some
> vulnerabilities in the past year, and package release

Which is why it's good to know how to build packages for your
distro (and for me, this is the reason, I don't use Debian anymore).

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