From owner-freebsd-security Fri May 17 20:58:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA20869 for security-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 20:58:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA20856 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 20:58:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.7.5/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA12168; Fri, 17 May 1996 21:58:35 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199605180358.VAA12168@rover.village.org> To: Jeff Hupp Subject: Re: very bad Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 17 May 1996 16:51:27 CDT Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 21:58:35 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-security@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : Security through obscurity does not work. Spreading the word far : and wide is the only hope of getting the word in all the right hands. If it : gets out at all it will end up in the wrong hand. I know seeing the problem here strongly motivated me to fix all the machines in the village that had this problem pronto. I appreciate finding out about it. Warner