Hi Could anybody give a direct reference to the lecture notes or something similar? I have only read the report in the link above
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:58:34PM +0200, Alex Behar wrote: > Well, it all depends on how he defines security in Linux. RedHat 6.2-secure > or > Adamantix/Hardened Gentoo-secure? > These last two beat Windows-based solutions out of the box any time, and they > have a pretty good chance surviving zero-day threats. This research did not check the level of security. It checked one of its parts: response to advisories. And it specifically checked a certain high-profile linux distribution. > All that, when Microsoft "advertise" that they are more secure compared to > RedHat, because they have less unpatched holes for the same period of time, > before releasing a patch. That is a complete joke! We all know Redhat (not > Fedora) is junk. I don't consider RedHat's level of security to be "joke". It certainly has sane defaults generally. > It worked its way down during the years to become the most > windows-like distribution out there and it is probably worsened since the > last time I checked. Although Fedora do surprise me, in a good way of course, > they still have a lot of work to do until they get to the level of > Gentoo-hardened or Adamantix - both from a security point of view, and from > ease of maintenance. Please check again. The defaults have become much better than in the days of RH62. It will now turn off most unnecessary services, install a simple iptables firewall by default etc. But this is not the issue here. > > Long story short, > the guy who that bold statement belongs to is probably either a corporate > insect Powered by Microsoft (tm), or an undercover MCSE. After so many "independent" researches that Microsoft has funded I tend to believe that this is the case here as well. However I'd like to get more details about the guy. -- Tzafrir Cohen | New signature for new address and | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | new homepage | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | Space reserved for other protocols | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
