On Jan 20, 2010, at 8:20 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> modern desktop distros are pretty locked down and don't have lots of >> ports >> open to the network the way they used to be a few years ago. > > Hopefully you're just talking about modern linux desktop distros. Cuz > windows and osx are pretty loose about opening things up to the > network. I > don't know any OS with worse security than OSX. I'll qualify that > by saying > by default, OSX has no firewall enabled at all, and bonjour happily > broadcasts to everyone, "Bonjour, everybody! Here's a list of what > services > I'm running..."
And what services would those be? If Mac OS X is "pretty loose about opening things up to the network", can you tell me which network services are running on an out-of-the-box OS X install? And how that compares to other OS installs? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Leon Towns-von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/ "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!" _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
