Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:10:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> To: FreeBSD-SECURITY <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Two kinds of advisories? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007131604020.67970-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, The way I see it, this isn't a problem with our system so to speak, but what our perfectly reasonable system does to our reputation. Go around to the "security" web sites and see how many "ports" exploits are labeled as "FreeBSD remote root exploit" or something equally alarming. Stuff like the above really damages us out there in the real world you know. Any idea how many times I hear "FreeBSD is an insecure OS!" with many references to these "ports" advisories. So ok, they can't read and report false information, that isn't OUR problem, is it? Simple fact is, it IS our problem, as it turns new users off to FreeBSD. These 'clueless' people could after a bit of time become the clueful, I mean hey, we weren't ALWAYS clueful were we? You shouldn't allow such misinformation to be propagated around the world. Would you rather that FreeBSD /appears/ to be an insecure operating system? * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@lucida.qc.ca http://www.lucida.qc.ca/ * * GPG fingerprint - A9BC F3A8 278E 22F2 9BDA BFCF 74C3 2D31 C035 5390 * -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp iD8DBQE5biIndMMtMcA1U5ARAmJQAKCb0mOhzdb7cNlP01/LAxO0fS6gAgCfUXED LmCPlKrRXTq2Gk638hmYAIc= =l/Cu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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