From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 9:30: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from noc.mainstreet.net (noc.mainstreet.net [207.5.0.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C5037BE55 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:30:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@noc.mainstreet.net) Received: (from mark@localhost) by noc.mainstreet.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id JAA16994; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:29:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:29:57 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003301729.JAA16994@noc.mainstreet.net> From: Mark Kent To: abc@bsdi.com Cc: benlutz@datacomm.ch, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20000330113843.A1103@laptop.firehouse.net> (message from Alan Clegg on Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:38:44 -0500) Subject: Re: Lynx forbidden Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message