[Psi-devel] version of server in service discovery

[Hal Rottenberg]

Thank you Kevin, I was about to say that.  Security through obscurity
is pretty meaningless.  Script kiddies will just hit a server with
everything and something is bound to stick regardless of what software
is there and what ports are open.

On 2/14/07, Kevin Smith <kevin at kismith.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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