From: Nick Guenther (kousuegmail.com)
Date: Sat Nov 04 2006 - 19:27:07 CST

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On 11/4/06, STeve Andre' <andresmsu.edu> wrote:
> On Saturday 04 November 2006 19:55, Nick Guenther wrote:
> > On 11/4/06, STeve Andre' <andresmsu.edu> wrote:
> > > On Saturday 04 November 2006 19:09, Nick Guenther wrote:
> > > > Just came across this article:
> > > > http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/OpenBSD/services.htm
> > > >
> > > > So is he right?
>
>
> At some point, configurations of a system get into policy questions.
> Whats best for a system? That gets hard to measure.
>
> If you look at security strictly from a 'turn it off' viewpoint then it
> was a useful thing to do. The concept of hardening is always
> interesting, but rememnber, what people thought five years ago
> might not be so relevant today, hence my skepticism when looking
> at sites that try to give advice on how to better OpenBSD.
>

Ah, a difficult problem. I know enough to leave it there. Thanks again.

-Nick

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