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Re: The magic security CD disc Re: HTTP proxies
From: "David Howe" <DaveHowe () gmx co uk>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:37:09 -0000
at Monday, December 09, 2002 4:29 AM, Steven M. Bellovin <smb () research att com> was seen to say:
Right. The problem (and the point I was making) is that "secure" is context-dependent. In some sense, the easy way to "secure" machines is to pull the network jack. That's a serious DoS attack on yourself.
perhaps a portscanner, coupled to some sort of process scanner (loaded with the common windows-based services, especially ones that come bundled) and a simple checkbox list that lists all the services, what they are (in relatively simple english) and allows the user to turn them back on (defaulting to off) ? Just sticking to windows would cover 95% of the potential users (if not more) and make the disk much simpler to write.
Current thread:
- The magic security CD disc Re: HTTP proxies Sean Donelan (Dec 08)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: The magic security CD disc Re: HTTP proxies Steven M. Bellovin (Dec 08)
- Re: The magic security CD disc Re: HTTP proxies Sean Donelan (Dec 08)
- Re: The magic security CD disc Re: HTTP proxies Alex Bligh (Dec 09)
- Re: The magic security CD disc Re: HTTP proxies Sean Donelan (Dec 08)
- Re: The magic security CD disc Re: HTTP proxies Steven M. Bellovin (Dec 08)
- Re: The magic security CD disc Re: HTTP proxies David Howe (Dec 09)
- RE: The magic security CD disc Re: HTTP proxies Hunter Pine (Dec 09)
- Re: The magic security CD disc Re: HTTP proxies Florian Weimer (Dec 09)
- Re: The magic security CD disc Re: HTTP proxies Alex Bligh (Dec 09)
- Re: The magic security CD disc Re: HTTP proxies Scott Francis (Dec 09)