full-disclosure - Microsoft plans tighter security measures in Windows XP SP2

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From: jason.full-disclosure at compnski.com (Jason Freidman)
Subject: Microsoft plans tighter security measures in Windows XP SP2


> In AD you simply set the group policies and you're done.  This is a
> *good* thing, which will reduce work for admins and make the enterprise
> more secure.  For personal users, they will have a box that is truly a
> client and cannot be a server without their specific authorization.
> That is a good thing as well.  How many *nix distributions have the
> firewall enabled by default?  Not many that I know of.  You usually have
> to enable it during the install, and then you have to decide on a
> configuration for it.  Granted, RedHat (for example) makes that pretty
> easy, but you still have to agree to it.

IIRC Anaconda puts the redhat firewall on High security by default.  Which means no incoming connections and uses their Lokkit script for DNS and so on.

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