15 Mar
2007
15 Mar
'07
05:14
On Wednesday 14 March 2007, M Harris wrote:
My primary firewall | router | dialer is a highly stable back-level kernel locked tight--- ship shape Bristol Fashion. The NSA might be able to hack into it, but you won't... and neither will the kid next door. In fact, our local LUG plays these kind of games where we expose
Exactly So. See my similar post on this very same topic. Oddly enough, some people fear a 2 year old kernel, but at the same time run 5 year hardware routers that might NEVER GET A NEW SOFTWARE UPDATE for their entire lifetime. Many of these are running old cut down versions of linux with ipchains. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen