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Except hiding your OS is not that big of a deal. For starters, it is really hard to do. I mean, if the site is running ASP, you have a 99.9999% chance it is a Windows machine. Running PHP, 99.99% chance of a Linux box. Security through obscurity is not security. ;) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shannon ODonnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 7:13 PM Subject: RE: Determining Operating System or Hardware via the Internet > HA! You know what? I didn't even think about the fact that people would try > to hide their OS to prevent hacking. DUH! I was just curious in a more > academic way about what OS's different sites were running. > > As always Scott, you provided an answer that contained not only the answer > to the question, but so much more that we wouldn't even have ever > considered, but which is really good information regardless and gets a > person to thinking about things in a different way. > > Thanks! > > > Shannon O'Donnell
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