On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 20:00 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 1/31/07, Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de wrote:
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 11:10 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de writes:
Ralf> I don't have any reasons to trust this URL smolt sends it data too.
In principle I think this site should be controlled by the fedora project.
Why do you think are people disabling log-in prompts, forging/suppressing server id-strings, not using HINFO records in named etc. ?
No idea what you're talking about, and I consider myself somewhat paranoid.
Many servers/service return an id-string identifying the version of a particular piece of SW - If this string is correct it, it provides clear information to which vulnerabilities it is likely to be vulnerable.
Therefore many server admins use faked id-strings or don't provide this kind of information.
Not worth mentioning, jerks sneaking on connections, theft of the data base, connecting this data with data available from other sources and selling this data ...
We're still talking about data which contains solely of hardware information which is individually publicly available,
It is not publicly available!! You don't know which hardware I am running nor how many machines I have, nor what I am using them for.
Otherwise smolt would not exist!
All you know is me using Fedora 6/i686 on a certain IP address.
Ralf