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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 09:01:41 -0700
To: Jim <jameso@omaha.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: MSNBC article
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I've already responded, noting that FreeBSD held up better than
Linux and that the person who made the Bugtraq posting was
bashing FreeBSD. More responses might help. (There are two
mail links on the page.)

--Brett

At 08:47 AM 2/9/2000 , Jim wrote:
   
>http://www.msnbc.com/msn/367495.asp
>
>Anyone see this article? They have this key line:
>
>""There have been numerous copies of the thing floating around," Cooper
>said. In addition to sending routers into a spiral that eventually
>causes
>complete service disruption, the attack exposed new vulnerabilities in
>the
>FreeBSD operating system. 
>
>That's the software Yahoo uses to run its site."
>
>
>Comments?
>
>Jim
>
>
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