The problem with releasing this information is that an attacker can see how
long the system has been online and possibly correlate that with what
patches are installed on the system telling whether it is likely to be
vulnerable to certain exploit(s).
'uname' is a little different in that it only
d binaries installed by a `make install`
are perm'd o-rwx and have a gid of sys or other) -- All I have for
reference here are solaris and AIX machines.. can anyone else confirm?
// chris
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