[ale] Is this BS?

[James Taylor]

I don't believe you can make a universal statement about that.
When I install openSUSE, by default, the firewall is on and no externally accessible services are available unless I enable them.
And it is very easy to use in that configuration.
I can't speak for Ubuntu. I don't use it.
-jt 
 

James Taylor
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james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com



>>> Collin Pruitt <hellow at binenv.com> 5/22/2014 5:21 PM >>> 
He is certainly very right about that. Most distributions that are not
specifically designed for server usage come out-of-the-box more
configured for usability than security.

On 5/22/2014 5:10 PM, John Heim wrote:
> 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.
> 
>> Most distros (Debian and Ubuntu for example, as I've already pointed
> out) come with services running
>> that don't need to be by default and no default block input policy.
> obviously this doesn't make one more
>> secure than another, but a user needs to know to disable those, or
> bind them to loopback or even just
>> protect them with iptables.


-- 
Collin Pruitt
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored,
the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all
irrevocably." - Jean-Luc Picard, TNG "The Drumhead"
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