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Hello Mick, |
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> Hmm, I'm not sure. The question is which *is* the most secure distro, |
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> not which can be made the most secure. A vanilla Gentoo installation |
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> (I know there is no such thing with Gentoo) has no firewall installed. |
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> Any application can open any port to the wind and especially with a |
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> poor security policy has the potential to expose the box to an attack. |
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> More so than a binary distro Gentoo relies on an intelligent |
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> configuration to be secure. |
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On the other hand, a "vanilla" Gentoo installation could be considered a |
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bare Stage 3, which has so little software installed it has to be the |
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most secure. Which only goes to show how meaningless such polls are. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"Bother" said Rue, as his paranoia spread across the publicly accessible |
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