<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:10 PM, John Heim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@johnheim.com" target="_blank">john@johnheim.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am currently talking with someone who claims Windows is more secure than linux "out of the box". Is the following comment by him BS? I can't find anything on google and I've never heard there is anything you have to do after installing debian or ubuntu to make it secure.<br>
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> Most distros (Debian and Ubuntu for example, as I've already pointed out) come with services running<br>
> that don't need to be by default and no default block input policy. obviously this doesn't make one more<br>
> secure than another, but a user needs to know to disable those, or bind them to loopback or even just<br>
> protect them with iptables.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't know which services he's referring to, but a default Debian or Ubuntu install has no network services exposed. No, there's no firewall enabled, but there's also no networked services.</div>
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