Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 21:44:10 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au> To: smelekov@vniigazmain.gazprom.ru (Serguei V. Melekhov) Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCPdump Message-ID: <199902081144.VAA27665@zeus.theinternet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <36BE9C67.2F79B121@vniigazmain.gazprom.ru> from "Serguei V. Melekhov" at "Feb 8, 99 11:12:24 am"
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+----[ Serguei V. Melekhov ]--------------------------------------------- | Hey, | | I vote 'NO'. We shouldn't let someone install bsd with default | bpf enabled option. Cause alot of lamers don't even know what r they | doing. Gee why don't we just make it harder to install then? Or require a licence to drive a computer... no wait! A splash screen that just has CAVEAT EMPTOR on it when it boots. Oooh oooh I know! Have a root password automatially generated by the system when it installs and *force* them to read the documentation to find out how to get the root password (coz of course the console would be 'insecure', although getting to booting single user probably lowers your lamer quotient). Actually it's too dangerous to allow people to have any networking at all by default, so it shouldn't have any network drivers by default either, Bah, make the boot floppy a 'freedos' boot floppy, until they read the documentation to find out where the real boot floppies are. And then everyone can stop answering -questions email... There might be a lot of good reasons not to include bpf in the default kernel, but, "there are a lot of lamers" is not a good one. -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| P:+61 7 3870 0066 | Andrew The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | F:+61 7 3870 4477 | Milton ACN: 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 |72 Col .Sig PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm@theinternet.com.au|Specialist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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