From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 17 17:55:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A7C37B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 17:55:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFCA543E42 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 17:55:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0277.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.22] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18Db8X-0005wO-00 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 17:55:42 -0800 Message-ID: <3DD8483C.4E4AD6F6@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 17:54:04 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? References: <20021117160245.U23359-100000@hub.org> <058a01c28e7c$c1af5f60$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20021117210742.GG17611@over-yonder.net> <05c701c28e95$4c8c9c70$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Matthew writes: > > And that's why Windows is bug-free and robust, right? > > In part, yes. It is soooooooo tempting to write an STT ("Security Test Tool") for Windows systems which incorporates implementations of all known remote exploits, one per subroutine, with payload arguments, and then Open Source it, so that people can test their Windows systems for security exploits. The license, of course, would be written to prohibit malicious users from replacing the test payload with a real one by changing the single function parameter to the main driver program, and would explain exactly what steps would constitute a prohibited action. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message