Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 03:31:13 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@galileo.edu>, Anthony Schneider <aschneid@mail.slc.edu>, Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1019955884.8b118e@mired.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security through obscurity? (was: ssh + compiled-in SKEY support considered harmful?) Message-ID: <3CC537F1.7F571CD2@mindspring.com> References: <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020422223923.64976i-100000@fledge.watson.org> <11670.1019530386@winston.freebsd.org> <20020423131646.I6425@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I've been noticing a continuing trend for more and more "safe" > configurations the default. I spent half a day recently trying to > find why I could no longer open windows on my X display, only to > discover that somebody had turned off tcp connections by default. > > I have a problem with this, and as you imply, so will a lot of other > people. As a result of this sort of thing, people trying to migrate > from other systems will probably just give up. I certainly would > have. While it's a laudable aim to have a secure system, you have to > be able to use it too. I'd suggest that we do the following: I think we need to make an ACPI call in the loader to power off the machine before it becomes dangerously functional. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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