Re: Determining Operating System or Hardware via the Internet

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