[ale] Is this BS?

Bob Toxen transam at VerySecureLinux.com
Thu May 22 18:48:39 EDT 2014


Buy his bridge.  You can get it cheap!

Bob

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 04:10:38PM -0500, 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.
> 
> 
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