[Psi-devel] version of server in service discovery

Kevin Smith kevin at kismith.co.uk
Wed Feb 14 01:21:43 PST 2007


On 14 Feb 2007, at 09:14, Nicolas Vérité wrote:
> it is well known that
> knowing the release/version of the software/OS is a security breach,

That's not quite right, the security vulnerabilities exists in the  
underlying systems - announcing what system you use at most only  
makes life faster for an intruder, and then only if you're running a  
system with known vulnerabilities.

/K

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Kevin Smith
Psi XMPP Client Project Leader (http://psi-im.org)





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