service version disclosure

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sat Jan 7 04:24:12 UTC 2012


On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 05:09:42 +0100,
  Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
> 
> however - why do we spit the current running versions to everyone?

It can help when trouble shooting problems. The current version isn't
really that helpful to attackers anyway. It's about as easy to just to try
an exploit as it is to first test to see if the exploit might work and
then try it.


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