[ILUG] Distro for a Sparc Ultra 5

John P. Looney valen at tuatha.org
Mon Aug 29 13:01:09 IST 2005


On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 05:48:12PM +0100, kevin lyda mentioned:
> security through obscurity is not to be depended on, but that's not to
> say it isn't a useful tool in your defensive toolkit.

 Some of the honeypot numbers are funny. Replacing "uname" with a script
that pretends you are running freebsd can reduce successful attacks by
40%.

 It'll break software compilation, but bah.

John

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