Re: [Hampshire] linux people don't listen and know very litt…

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Author: James Courtier-Dutton
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] linux people don't listen and know very little in reality
On 03/03/2008, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
> Funnily enough, most "security experts" don't seem to know what they
> are talking about either..
>
> "You need to disable ping reply on your web farm as it could allow
> enumaration of hosts."
>
> "Can't they just enumerate them by a TCP connect scan of port 80
> then?"
>
> "Er.."
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>


Yes, and security experts who only turn up to an Man-Machine-Interface
(MMI) design workshop and skip the software design workshops!!!