From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 23 22:54:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0676A106566C for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:54:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from b.smeelen@ose.nl) Received: from mail.ose.nl (mail.ose.nl [212.178.134.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968D08FC0C for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:54:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Footer: b3NlLm5s Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.ose.nl for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:54:16 +0100 From: "Bas Smeelen" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20111223225416.d7e93cc4@mail.ose.nl> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:54:16 +0100 X-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:54:19 -0000 >If a security advisory is announced, you have to patch, period! =20 >Happy holidays to all. Black hats too :) =20 >--=20 >George =20 It is up to the sysadmin. If your services are not affected, there is no need to patch. Although it's best to always keep your systems up to the latest. I think the security advisories are a good thing especially this time = of the year But like they say here it's a storm in a glass of water YMMV Cheers and happy holidays (holy-days :)) =20 Disclaimer=3A http=3A//www=2Eose=2Enl/email