vxp wrote:
pretty much any sort of attack / intrusion attempt begins with information gathering on the machine. part of that, would be trying to figure out what OS runs on the machine. the more (accurate) information a potential attacker can gather on the machine, the more chances that his attempt will succeed. obviously, even with this change in place, you'd need to do some other things so as to prevent this for example:
$ telnet localhost 22 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost.digital-security.org Escape character is '^]'. SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.6.1p1 FreeBSD-20030924 ^^^^^^^^^ banners all over need to be changed
but nevertheless, it'd be a step in the right direction in my opinion
A great man once said to me "Security by obscurity is, after all, no security at all."
This is very much a step in the wrong direction.
-- Colin Alston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
About the use of language: "It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead."
-- E.W.Dijkstra, 18th June 1975. (Perl did not exist at the time.)
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