4 Nov
2011
4 Nov
'11
6:51 p.m.
On 11/4/2011 6:14 PM, Mouse wrote:
Out of the box Debian has pretty much nothing installed. I don't know of
any current vulnerabilities. If they are found they are patched. Can't
say the same for VMS 5. When was the last VMS 5 security patch ? It was
released in 1988.
Tell me how
debian is less secure out of the box ?
Well, if you're on x86 or x64, which
most Debian probably will be, then
it's less secure in that it's capable of running the payload of most
cracking tools.
A VAX isn't, not unless you run an x86 emulator on it (which is
definitely not an out-of-the-box configuration).
Debian is also less secure in that it's popular enough to have had a
lot more cracker attention; Debian-attacking tools are far commoner and
far more commonly used than VMS-attacking tools.