[CALUG] DoD/OSI Layer 2, 3 and 4 in the real world -- WAS: open ports

[Bryan J Smith]

Very much agreed all around.


Again, I changed the subject and tried to give some background when I saw some things going deeper than they should, and they were missing a lot of necessary detail.  And the result was what I thought it was, assumptions on how things always work, and then the hole was dug deeper.  ;)

Oh well, I know everyone's just trying to help everyone, so I usually don't take that much interest.  I did today, maybe a little abrasively, but sometimes I hit it on the nose.

 

----- Original Message -----
From: Morty Abzug <morty at frakir.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:05 PM

Indeed.  And there are plenty of security issues that have nothing at
all to do with IP services, such as privilege escalation, not doing
everything as root, patching, log analysis, and IP client issues such
as clickjacking.  Hence why I would recommend finding a security guide
tailored for your distro, rather that asking for "open port" guidance.