On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Allen P. Numerick wrote:
[SNIP]
>
> Oh and one more thing. If your going to leave telnet open. Turn the
> welcome banner OFF. <-- Quickiest way to find what OS is running on a box.
>
This is good advice, obscurity gets a bad rap in our channels here. Yet,
it can reduce loss and all that. As long as it is not the primary or the
only protection offered. Obscurity with GOOD security is a grand
practise. Even if one went out and paid 100,000 for the latest and
greatest peripheral device for protection, why advertise it and give the
crackerbox boys more info up front to work with? Secure and obscure!
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
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