Subject: Re: Preventative security features?
To: Dmitri Nikulin <setagllib@optusnet.com.au>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-security
Date: 11/11/2004 14:38:16
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:41:06PM +1100, Dmitri Nikulin wrote:
> At the very least, the ability to run nmap against a NetBSD machine and 
> have it be completely unknown, even with plenty of open and closed ports 
> available.

I don't see the security benefit of this. I prefer script kiddis noticing
NetBSD, sighing loud, and giving up ;-)

Martin
P.S.: the nmap 3.55 I had lying around has not been able to guess the OS on any
NetBSD machine I pointed it at.