> of proportion... Some things in security _have_ to be obscure. Your > password, for example. Or the primes used to generate your PGP private There's a difference between 'obscure' and 'secret'. All you gain by removing kernel-loading capability from your kernel is to force cracker to search memory to find entry points. That's like hiding key to your door under your doormat.
> Security-by-obscurity refers to securing things by relying on the > obscurity of the _processes and functionality_ behind the security system, that fits this description. -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9
