Re: Secured vs. Security Distros and Wish Lists

[Douglas Elznic <dfelznic@syr.edu>]

On Tue, 08 Jun 1999, you <Matthew Franz> wrote:
> While we're talking about which tools should be included in a "secure" 
> Linux distribution, I think we need to make the distinction between
> between Security-Oriented distributions (such as Trinux) and what I
> believe the purpose of this list--to created a secure (or better yet,
> hardened) version of Linux.  A hardened version of Linux would not (or
> should not) contain sniffers, port scanners, password crackers, etc. while
> a security distribution would. 
> 
Why _SHOULD_ it not contain these tools. I do not see why it should not maybe
it does not need them to be secure but there is no reason it should not have
these tools. Furthermore there is a lot to be said for using these tools
against your own system to make sure it is secure. 
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