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umm no. He specifically mentions that all the softwares are vulnerable: "Its developers have spent hours stuffing it with broken, ill-configured, outdated, an
by pavs 16y ago
umm no.
He specifically mentions that all the softwares are vulnerable:
"Its developers have spent hours stuffing it with broken, ill-configured, outdated, and exploitable software that makes it vulnerable to attacks."
Just replace them with the latest, patched, default configured version.
- btilly 16y agoWhat pieces of software do you replace? How do you replace it? Remember that it likely doesn't some with anything like apt to make this easy.
- kaens 16y agoYou wipe the disk and install OpenBSD.
- mahmud 16y agoGood idea, but completely beside the point.
- davidw 16y agoWhy sit around replacing packages by hand when you're not really learning anything? The best fix for a system like this is to nuke it from orbit and reinstall. I mean, odds are, you'll miss something, and then spent hours fooling around after getting hacked, when you could have just spent your time concentrating on what's important: saving relevant data and configuration, reinstalling, and securing the updated configuration.
- rick_2047 16y agoThis is a course in security and thats why the comment is completely beside the point.
- davidw 16y agoThe important point, which I did miss, is that it's not just a "security course", it's a course about how to break into things, so you need vulnerable programs. If you're not specializing in security stuff, the best course of action, is, however, to just keep your stuff up to date via apt or some similar mechanism.
- steveklabnik 16y agoBut in order to properly understand what you could be vulnerable to and the why/how, you should learn how to break into things. Yes, normally, you're working at a higher level of abstraction, but if you want to understand how things really work, you work at a lower level for a while.
- zachrose 16y agoOr you could just get an iPad.