[arch-general] Preferred CHOST

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com
Thu Nov 13 05:55:51 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 23:22 -0500, Sean Greenslade wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 01:53:25PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > If somebody should fear an attack, than it's wiser even not to
> > mention what version of Claws Mail, GTK and what architecture is used.
> > This can be done by the account settings.
> > Configuration > Edit accounts... > Edit selected account > Send >
> > [ ] Add user agent header
> 
> Very true, and it is sound advice to make this change. The less you tell
> people about your system, the harder it is for them to profile it for
> vulnerabilities.

Sean, actually you tells us that we should care about security holes in
Mutt/1.5.23 to attack you ;) and since you're replying to Arch general
email, you're likely using Arch Linux. This likely is a trick, you're
running Alpin on openSUSE? ;)

Regards,
Ralf


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