[ale] Is this BS?

[David Tomaschik]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:10 PM, John Heim <john at johnheim.com> wrote:

> I am currently talking with someone who claims Windows is more secure than
> linux "out of the box". Is the following comment by him BS? I can't find
> anything on google and I've never heard there is anything you have to do
> after installing debian or ubuntu to make it secure.
>
> > Most distros (Debian and Ubuntu for example, as I've already pointed
> out) come with services running
> > that don't need to be by default and no default block input policy.
> obviously this doesn't make one more
> > secure than another, but a user needs to know to disable those, or bind
> them to loopback or even just
> > protect them with iptables.
>

I don't know which services he's referring to, but a default Debian or
Ubuntu install has no network services exposed.  No, there's no firewall
enabled, but there's also no networked services.


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