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Ciaran McCreesh posted <20040927225631.628b169a@××××××××.home>, excerpted |
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below, on Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:56:31 +0100: |
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> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:41:30 -0700 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> | it shouldn't be installed, for security reasons. |
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> What security reasons would those be? |
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Just the usual basic don't install what you don't need, and you have fewer |
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things to worry about having exploitable holes in them, concept. (Didn't |
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I read someone on this group/list claiming that Gentoo had a no |
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unnecessary daemons policy, just yesterday?) |
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I thought the "if it's not needed, it shouldn't be installed for security |
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reasons" was clear enough. However, upon rereading, I guess it /could/ be |
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taken that there was something more specific to worry about, tho I didn't |
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say there was, from what I wrote. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little |
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temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- |
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Benjamin Franklin |
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