Re: [PLUG] "Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to root." Eee PC

[brent saner <brent.saner@gmail.com>]

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Brian Vagnoni wrote:
| BODY{font:10pt Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;} Some people expressed
| interest in these new PC's. However I'm sure most will use a
| different version of Linux.
|
| Source Metasploit:
|
| The fine folks at RISE Security <http://www.risesecurity.org/> have
|  purchased a Linux-based ASUS Eee PC
| <http://eeepc.asus.com/global/> and literally rooted it out of the
| box (using Metasploit, of course). Considering how much criticism
| other PC vendors
|
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9052758>
|  have received for out-of-the-box security, its a wonder that a
| similar outcry has not been heard for Linux-based products. The
| last line of the RISE article really sums it up: "*E*asy to learn,
| *E*asy to work, *E*asy to root."
|
| http://www.risesecurity.org/blog/entry/6/
|

not surprised in the least. one of the reasons i generally hate
xandros- it's broken debian. :P (sorry to any xandros-fans)

- --
brent saner.
gpg info at http://www.notebookarmy.org/gpg.txt
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