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 | | Say rather than unknown, unpublished.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 No, they would be unpublished security holes used by expert intruders.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. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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