On Friday 16 May 2008 07:01:38 pm lostson wrote: > On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 06:42 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > Rico Secada wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > Why is Debian not setup to be secure be default? > > > > > > Not everyone is a security expert so imho the system should be fully > > > secured out-of-the-box. > > > > Please elaborate on what you consider to be the insecure parts of a > > default installation. Describe a process by which an etch system can be > > compromised remotely. Obviously, the ability to become root by tweaking > > the boot parameters from the grub screen does not count as a > > vulnerability. > > My 2 cents a default firewall would be nice
You mean like Windows has? How about not. Here's why: http://samspade.org/d/firewalls.html -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html
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