Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (204 mails)

["Tom Knight" <thomas.knight@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen [mailto:gorebofh@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 28 December 2004 07:47
> To: suse-security@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [suse-security] Will SuSE support stack smashing protection
> one day?
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 28 December 2004 01:11, Malte Gell wrote:
> 
> >
> > Isn't this wishful thinking or unfeasable to a certain degree? I just
> > thought if OpenBSD ships with SSP it must have noticeable advantages,
> > otherwise they hadn't included it.
> 
> It does, they can brag how secure it is over other OSs in a 
> default state. 
> Which is shit anyway, an OS should come with a more useable state than 
> secure, and it should be up to the admin to secure it as needed. 

What, like with Windows?

XP's great, the default user has admin privs, and doesn't even need a 
password to log on! Really easy for the user. Crap design, but easy.

Tom.

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