[maemo-developers] [OT] maemo settings website

[From: Steve Greenland]

According to vicente garcia <vicentegarcia at gmail.com>:
> This website shows the package versions:
> 
> https://maemo.org/midcom-exec-midcom/about.php
> 
> I think it is unsecure to show this.

Well, all I get is a login page. But assuming that the if you do login
you get a list of midgard and associated package versions, it's not a
particular security issue. Script kiddies don't break websites by screen
scraping version numbers, they break websites by running their crack
scripts against every port 80 they can find. Otherwise my server logs
wouldn't be full of attacks against Windoze servers.

Contrariwise, you don't keep a site secure by hiding version numbers,
you keep a site secure by fixing the bugs.

Steve


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Steve Greenland
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    system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
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