Fabien Wernli wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:49:03PM +0100, Laurence wrote:
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>>For the GlueHostOperatingSystemRelease, make sure that you are not
>>publishing the kernel version, doing this is just asking for trouble!
>
>
> One compromise would be to publish the major version number e.g. 2.4 or 2.6 for the
> kernel.
If this is too about security , I dont see how creating an illusion of
security for ourselves is of any value. We should rather invest our time
to more proactive steps like patching. People performing system
compromises are not stupid. And they dont care what version of kernel
(or anything else in that matter) I publish.
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