Re: Advantage of Having or Not Having Header Files . . . . . . . (was: Re: To package or not to package) [tlug]

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Jim wrote:

> When securing a machine, such as a production server, everything
> that is not necessary is removed. It frustrates attackers when
> the tools (and library headers) are not there.

That's up there with, "no liquids in bottles larger than 100 ml" at the
airport security checks.

And no doubt people are believing that this is providing them with some
sort of useful extra security on machines that accept password logins
over the network.

cjs
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