On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 05:48:12PM +0100, kevin lyda mentioned:
> security through obscurity is not to be depended on, but that's not to
> say it isn't a useful tool in your defensive toolkit.
Some of the honeypot numbers are funny. Replacing "uname" with a script
that pretends you are running freebsd can reduce successful attacks by
40%.
It'll break software compilation, but bah.
John
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