On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 00:57 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Some systems are easier to achieve a given level of security than > others. MSDOS, for example, is easier to secure than Linux, since > unless one has done something foolish like a CTTY COM1, no one can > issue commands via a modem. And if no software is listening to the > modem, as it is not in MSDOS unless one installs such software, it > remains relatively secure. I don't have a single Linux box here that listens to the modem. I'd have to install a service to do so. Your MS-DOS box is no more secure than any of them, for that point of attack. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
