On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 12:35:44PM -0800, Bigby Findrake wrote: > I'd just like to make a small contribution to this discussion. > > While most of us understand the merits and flaws of security through > obscurity, I would like to point out the semantic fact that the phrase is, > indeed, "security *through* obscurity", that while not flawless, obscurity > is another path to security, that it is (more) difficult to attack the > host you cannot see, (more) difficult to exploit the flaw you cannot > detect, (more) difficult to connect to the daemon you do not know is > listening. >
You can also couple this with port-knocking (or even just port-knocking on 22). > > > /-------------------------------------------------------------------------/ > I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. > > finger://[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.ephemeron.org/~bigby/ > news://news.ephemeron.org/alt.lemurs > /-------------------------------------------------------------------------/ > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Peter C. Lai Dept. of Neurobiology Yale University School of Medicine http://cowbert.2y.net/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
