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Red Hat to Release Enhanced-Security Linux

Posted by timothy on from the compound-modifier dept.

Klatoo55 writes "According to an article by Techweb, Red Hat will release Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, which includes support for Security-Enhanced Linux, in 2005. Red Hat has been running this system with a published IP address asking for hackers to try to break the security. The last version was defeated within 45 seconds, but this new version (apparently to be the policy for the next Fedora) has yet to be cracked."

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  1. Security Enhanced Sure! But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think we can bring that baby down without a hack.

    What say you slashdot?

  2. I wonder how the last system was defeated? by Snake_Plisken · · Score: 5, Funny

    45 seconds? Sounds liek someone yanked the power cord out of the boxen to do it that fast...

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    1. Re:I wonder how the last system was defeated? by Sexy+Bern · · Score: 3, Funny

      But is that 45 seconds on the battlefield or 45 seconds at medium-to-long-range targets?

  3. Windows Beats Linux! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    The last version was defeated within 45 seconds
    That's nothing. I put a stock Windows box on the internet, didn't even bother publishing the IP, and it was cracked within 10 seconds! Take that, open-source advocates, Windows has finally beat you at something!
  4. Re:Security? by Sexy+Bern · · Score: 5, Funny

    ifconfig eth0 down

  5. Re:Invulnerable to MyDoom type virii? by BoomerSooner · · Score: 4, Funny

    By not running your mail client as root.

  6. Re:45 Seconds?!?! by daemonslayer · · Score: 2, Funny
    wasn't designed to be as secure

    It sounds like it was designed to be insecure...

  7. Re:Linux Defeated in Benchmarks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In case anyone is wondering, he used the highly reliable Anonymous Coward Benchmarking Suite (TM).

  8. Re:45 Seconds?!?! by DAldredge · · Score: 4, Funny

    It means the people that write tech articles are, for the most part, idiots.

  9. Nope, MYdoom counts on stupid users... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nope, MYdoom counts on stupid users... yet another reason to license users.

  10. eureka. by xeeno · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. Release OS for years filled with security holes
    2. Stop releasing OS for free
    3. Sell security based OS
    4. ?????
    5. Profit!

  11. Re:45 Seconds?!?! by mackman · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think this time they changed the default root password to something better than "root".

  12. red switch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Red Hat discovered that the vunerability in the first version was tied to a switch on the back of the computer. The new version has this in the 'off' position by default.

  13. Re:So.... by dekashizl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone know the IP in question?

    It's 127.0.0.1. If you do manage to break in, see if you can find any interesting files, and go ahead and post them up here.

  14. Re:45 Seconds?!?! by Tim+C · · Score: 4, Funny

    I suspect that they're trying to say "the root account had no password", but typoed it rather spectacularly.

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  15. Re:45 Seconds?!?! by dagnabit · · Score: 4, Funny

    I use my luggage combination - 12345.

  16. Redhat Publishes IP by m1kesm1th · · Score: 4, Funny

    from: root@redhat
    to: groups@l33tscript3rs.org
    subject: hack da gibson

    Hackable Server, come hack me plz. IP: 127.0.0.1

  17. Re:45 seconds in 1999 by Rejemy · · Score: 2, Funny

    We had much better seconds, back in those days.

  18. Re:45 Seconds?!?! by Wiz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey! Thats the same password as my planet's airsheild!