John Hardin wrote:
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
I also heard stories of my son doing battle with hackers who had
gotten into his Linux system.
Keep in mind that those were not the Linus-written Linux programs,
those were programs like Telnet, Sendmail, etc. which predated both
Linux, the GPL, and GNU in many cases - and Linus merely took those
programs and applied his license to them.
I think the OpenBSD people in particular would object to people saying
that one of their boxes with Sendmail compiled on it, that was hacked
into, was insecure. FreeBSD likely as well.
Once Linus's clue phone rang and he changed the load defaults to have
all those programs disabled during installation, Linux stopped having
those problems.
Ted, I think you're attributing far too much to Linus here. The distro
maintainers decide which service daemons they include and set their
initial startup policies. Linus just developed the kernel.
Your absolutely right, of course. Cheap, (but fun) shot.
Ted
