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TuxJournal: Interview with Fyodor of Nmap

[ Thanks to TuxJournal.net for this link.
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What’s your personal point of view about GNU/Linux
security?

“It has improved dramatically over the last decade and the
innovation continues. Distributions used to come with literally
dozens of open ports, and were often slow to patch bugs. Now
firewalls are generally enabled by default, and many popular
distributions have implemented the NSA-built SELinux system.
Features like encrypted filesystems that used to require applying
obscure patches and recompile the kernel are now often just a few
simple commands away…”

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