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From: Sthitaprajna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [LIH] linux kernal recompiling
On 24 Jul 00, at 10:04, Mukund Deshmukh wrote:
> The best security is to disconnect the box from net and put it in Swiss
bank
> ;-)) Now you have to explain what this box is supposed to do and what
--I don't think this is secure. If a person does not have the capability to
--monitor his/her machine when he/she has a choice to be online, it is
--/really/ doubtful whether he/she will fail to screw it up when
--disconnected. Security is a measure of how paranoid you are and how you
--choose to cement this paranoia.
You missed my ;-)))))
> these services. No machine in the entire net fully secured as hackers are
> always on look out for exploits and are much smarter than server admins.
The
--I beg your pardon. BTW, please brush up on what a "hacker" is. ESR's
hacker
--howto or something like that will be at http://www.tuxedo.org/esr/. And in
--a majority of the cases, these exploits are reported by
--testers/administrators rather than crackers. And if a cracker was smarter
--than most server admins, I wonder how these explois would ever be
detected!
Here again you are opening pandora box. I had correctly used the word
hacker.
If hackers can bring down the yahoo and amazon, deface the apache site, and
the list is endless....., who is smarter?
> BTW the kernel has very little to do with security. Linux as such is very
> secured OS but the fault lies with server admin who are ignorant or
> careless.
--To say that that the kernel has nothing to do with security may not be
--entirely correct. What if it causes memory/buffer overflows?
I said very little .... nad BTW the memory / buffer /stack over flow are not
due to kernerl but due to some stupid piece of code by programmer.
Best Regards,
M.S.Deshmukh,
Director.
Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd.
Web Site - http://betacomp.com
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