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Re: how to change OS idenfication?

From: Juraj Ziegler (ehq.sk)
Date: Fri Feb 20 2004 - 03:39:08 CST

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:41:29PM +0100, Christophe Sahut wrote:
> The other way is to look like another operating system and then receive
> exploits that don't work on us, but this still be security through
> obscurity which is bad (tm).

I would rather rephrase it to "Security solely through obscurity is
bad." [tm]. If you secure your system on other layers and then _add_ an
obscurity layer, I see nothing wrong with it.

j.

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