On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 02:08:28PM -0600, Julesg wrote:
> I want aircard support of course (which lets out DELL and a few other
> manufactuer's.)
>
> So what's the best? Why?
>
> BTW: I suspect, but have zero affirming data, that SSH2 has been
> cracked. I had numerous security incidents on another laptop (not
> running Obsd,) so I don't know if the problem was Fbsd or SSH, though
> the Fbsd OS was re-installed several times and serurity oriented folks
> tightened down Fbsd for me (out of the box, it's a joke!)
>
> Now I'm getting into laptop's again and want to make the right
> choices! Which means Obsd first and foremost, so I ask: which
> laptop??
FreeBSD isn't that bad, security-wise. I don't know who you are, but I
feel pretty confident in saying that *if* someone broke SSH2, he'd have
better things to do than mess with you. Not to mention being so good at
messing with you that you'd likely never notice.
At the moment, I know of one attack that may work against sshd, which is
simply guessing passwords. In fact, it is the one attack often seen in
the wild.
Of course, this can be solved adequately by either choosing strong
passwords or just disabling password authentication altogether, which is
a pretty good idea all things considered.
However, this is not an attack against ssh, per se - after all, sshd
does what it should do. And, in fact, this problem is not up to the
OpenSSH people to solve, either - just choose good passwords.
I have heard good things about the IBM Thinkpad line; quite a few people
use these with OpenBSD. So you might look into one of these - I don't
know too much about laptops, though, so I'll let other, more
laptop-savvy misc@ poster answer that one for you.
Joachim
