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Date:      Sun, 11 Feb 2001 10:43:27 -0600
From:      "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        Matt Heckaman <matt@LUCIDA.CA>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, FreeBSD-ADVOCACY <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Ports Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:INSERT_NUMBER_HERE
Message-ID:  <20010211104327.A19845@peorth.iteration.net>
In-Reply-To: <000801c093ad$bbf82140$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 02:06:35PM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102101612130.5808-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca> <000801c093ad$bbf82140$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 02:06:35PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt scribbled:
| > This is the whole point! The REASON we've been seeing tons of port
| > advisories is because they are being audited. The security team should be
| > thanked for that. Otherwise these bugs would probably be unknown!
| >
| 
| Say rather than unknown, unpublished.  If nobody knew about them they
| wouldn't
| be security holes now would they?

No, they would be unpublished security holes used by expert intruders.
The better mentality would be to patch your own applications.
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