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Comment Re: RHEL/Fedora is too far behind? (Score 1) 71

Unless things have changed you are wrong. Fedora is the community supported sandbox for Red Hat. Red Hat doesn't seem support for it and you won't find the RHEL logos, etc. there. CentOS is RHEL minus the Red Hat proprietary at work, etc. If CentOS has started pulling from Fedora rather than RHEL that is very stupid. Fedora is not now, not has it ever been intended for mission critical enterprise deployment.

Comment Re: Not sure you know what Zero Day means (Score 1) 112

If your curious it means you are going to learn something now. You can mitigate against Zero Days by learning about computer security and practicing solid layered protections. Go through and read the CVs sometime. You will notice a set of conditions that must be true for the exploit to work. In general at least one of those will be that the system administrator(s) have to have failed to implement one of the mitigations. For example take your standard "attacker must have proximity" exploit. The solution isn't even a software solution. In this case you mitigate those by making sure an attacker cannot easily sneak in to the area where the system is and do his thing. I'm glad I could help you learn enough to realize that you have a lot of learning to do. You are welcome!

Comment Re: Not sure you know what Zero Day means (Score 1) 112

Holy fuck I hope you don't work in software development. You are a complete fucking moron. Someone finds a vulnerability. If they are a white hat it gets reported, then others exploit it between the time it gets announced and the time it gets patched. If they are a black hat then they exploit it until someone else also finds it, reports it, and it gets patched. The difference is in who finds it, and that is literally the only difference.

Comment Not sure you know what Zero Day means (Score 3, Insightful) 112

Zero Day exploits are no different than any other exploit. If your job is to help ensure security then your job is to find as many vulnerabilities before someone else usually with making finds them. Try googling it and think about for a minute, after which you should have much more success finding the job you seek.

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