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> From [email protected] Wed Aug 3 09:07:20 2005 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Your router/switch may be less secure than you think > From: "Robert E.Seastrom" <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 09:58:53 -0400 > > > > [email protected] writes: > > > We should all be looking to the security auditing work done by > > the OpenBSD team for an example of how systems can be > > cleaned up, fixed, and locked down if there is a will to do so. > > Beer, unsupported assertions, and lack of rigorous audit methodology > can be blended together to make one's code more secure? That would seem to depend on the quality of the code _before_ the blending, no? As well as getting the proportions in the blend "just right". *grin* Seriously, _any_ approach "can" result in better/more secure code. It all depends on exactly _what_ is done. Some approaches for identifying and/or eliminating "problems" are more efficient and/or more effective than are alternative means. This does -not- mean that those are the "only" ways to get things done. Now, the _liklihood_ that any given approach "willresult in better/more secure code -- *that* is an entirely different question. :)
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