4 Nov
2011
4 Nov
'11
7:03 p.m.
On 11/4/2011 6:04 PM, Geoffrey Reed wrote:
Good way to alienate any possible supporters you may
have. Many of us
out here have experience with classic hardware and software and
current hardware and software. In my last gig we used a couple
different Operating Systems and NONE were trusted out of the box, they
were all hardened as some of our machines lived in the corporate DMZ.
Anyone who suggested that any OS was secure enough right out of the
box would have been laughed out of the office.
What do you mean out of the box ? What would you do to a current Debian
distro to make it more secure ? You can't even install it without
setting passwords and no services are turned on. If you add services
they are at super paranoid settings until you adjust them so you can
actually use them for anything. The whole internet is running on linux
now like it or not. It is pretty darn secure as a server.