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Date:      Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:29:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mark Kent <mark@noc.mainstreet.net>
To:        abc@bsdi.com
Cc:        benlutz@datacomm.ch, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Lynx forbidden
Message-ID:  <200003301729.JAA16994@noc.mainstreet.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000330113843.A1103@laptop.firehouse.net> (message from Alan Clegg on Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:38:44 -0500)

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>> If you want to open yourself (and your users) up to buffer overflows in
>> the code, you are more than welcome.

Which is not great advice in the net.climate of today where crackers
are looking for vulnerable boxes from which to launch distributed
denial of service attacks.

A vulnerable box on the net is a threat to us all.

-mark


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