From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Feb 11 8:43:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3EED37B401 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 08:43:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 758D95764F; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 10:43:27 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 10:43:27 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Matt Heckaman , Kris Kennaway , FreeBSD-ADVOCACY Subject: Re: FreeBSD Ports Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:INSERT_NUMBER_HERE Message-ID: <20010211104327.A19845@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" Mail-Followup-To: "Michael C . Wu" , Ted Mittelstaedt , Matt Heckaman , Kris Kennaway , FreeBSD-ADVOCACY References: <000801c093ad$bbf82140$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000801c093ad$bbf82140$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 02:06:35PM -0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 | | Say rather than unknown, unpublished.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 No, they would be unpublished security holes used by expert intruders.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