From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 14 8:16:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from almen.vxu.se (almen.vxu.se [194.47.99.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4657A37B423 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:16:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from XGod (aaldv97.idet.vxu.se [194.47.111.20]) by almen.vxu.se (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA27017 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:16:10 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <003901c01e5e$c1cd4bf0$6400a8c0@XGod> From: "David Andreas Alderud" To: References: <200009140243.e8E2hDG42233@whizzo.transsys.com> <20000914085620.K61662@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: potential security exposure in GNOME/ORBit? Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:16:29 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ade Lovett wrote: > > GNOME scares me :-) > > Me too. Does that scare you any more? :) It ought to scare anyone. Using a non-centralized development model for so much code is like asking for troubble when it comes to bugs and security. Besides, anything that uses resources like they where no end to them doesn't belong in a UNIX-like environment, or anywhere for that matter. /Kind regards, David A. Alderud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message