On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Jochen Kaiser wrote:
> oh my god. this will become a monsterthread :)
that it will...
[SNIP]
>
> >
> > Is Linux and ipchains/squid/TIS FWTK/etc a security risk?
>
> A linux out of the box always is. If you spend time and patch and check
> configurations and use it as a standalone computer for firewalling and
> squid with no other user shell access, it may be usable.
>
As is solars, sgi, hp, you name em, all but perhaps openbsd and even a few
particular distributions of linux designed to be secure 'out of the box'.
The key point here is knowing yer OS and knowing in particular -=how to
lock it down=- It's been said here many times over, if you know an OS
better then others, use that, even if yer talking linux, which can be well
suited to certain situations.
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
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