Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
I'd have to agree with most of Ted and Gayn's points. Also, it's hard to answer many of the questions when they are different for different servers. Unless there is a serious bug in something like SSH, then a paying client with a seriously firewalled server and no malicious users might get up

RE: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-22 Thread Gayn Winters
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted > Mittelstaedt > Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:20 PM > To: Colin Percival; FreeBSD Questions > Subject: RE: FreeBSD Security Survey > > Colin, > > Just a couple problems with the survey: > > Question #6 needs a &qu

RE: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Colin, Just a couple problems with the survey: Question #6 needs a "Sometimes" as it is not going to be a yes or no question for many people. Your also ignoring the fact that many security holes are a lot easier to ignore and just block off the affected service. For example we run an older R