From owner-freebsd-security Tue May 29 16: 1:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from awww.jeah.net (awww.jeah.net [216.111.239.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4347D37B424 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 16:01:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@jeah.net) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by awww.jeah.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4TMvoN03850; Tue, 29 May 2001 17:57:50 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris@jeah.net) Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 17:57:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Byrnes To: Bigby Findrake Cc: Subject: Re: freebsd rootkit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010529175634.U3809-100000@awww.jeah.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Why not? Surely you're not suggesting that a rootkit is a bad thing, or > that no one here would help him find one - wouldn't that be rather silly > of us? If we knew where one was, wouldn't it make the most sense to make > sure that anyone could get there hands on it? Isn't that (among other > ways) how open software advances? I can't count the number of times I've > seen security people make the argument that everyone should own lockpicks. > > If I misunderstood, you, Chris, what did you mean? I'm not sure who you are, but it's funny how you post this on the public mailing list, and send me another e-mail in private that isn't so, for lack of better word, clean. I'm sorry if I don't advocate the distribution of attack tools. I'll make sure I change my mentality -- just for you. Chris Byrnes (chris@JEAH.net) JEAH Communications, LLC (www.JEAH.net) Call toll-free! 1-866-AWW-JEAH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message