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Stupid security

This sort of thing REALLY annoys me. Security through obscurity is a FEATURE of this product, the Wyse V10L thin client.

To quote:

And, with an unpublished API, Wyse Thin OS is one of the most secure operating systems on the market.

What rot. What that means translated is “not many people know how our stuff works, so therefore not many people can exploit it”.

And, yes, this may truly mean that it isn’t often exploited. But at some point it will be. Far better to be secure by design than by lack of being a target.

Written by Ben Hamilton

September 26th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

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Security tool for all Sysadmins

Nmap is a tool for security conscious system administrators, version 4.50 has been released.

This is one tool that gets a lot of use from me, it makes finding insecure machines on the network so so much easier.

Written by Ben Hamilton

December 21st, 2007 at 3:55 pm

Posted in security

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