Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:06:09 +0100 From: Raf Schietekat <sky92136@skynet.be> To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: as they advise the Sponsor. Message-ID: <3C70A7E1.5080900@skynet.be> References: <200202162009.g1GK90C96120@mail.visp.co.nz> <3C6FF51C.4090602@skynet.be> <20020217193936.A25423@energyhq.homeip.net>
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Miguel Mendez wrote: >[...] > WTF, could we stop all this crap everytime a LookOut user sends an > infected message to any of the freebsd-* lists? I mean, do we really > care? After all, it only affects Windows users ;-) > > If it depended on me, Outlook users would be banned from posting here. > > Cheers, Yeah, good idea, nuke all them Billysoft suckers and save the world! Meanwhile, how about if I sent an innocent FreeBSD user an attack (this looked like a Trojan horse, not an Outlook worm/virus (?), after my forwarding cum "virus" filtering service released it to me)? Would s/he be protected by what Java would call a sand box? I don't think so. Unix security may be based more on marginality than on technical prowess, and little if any progress seems to be being made. What good does it do to me as an ordinary user that the superuser is safe and smug about his continued service, if all my personal stuff goes down the drain? Raf Schietekat <Raf_Schietekat@ieee.org> Running Netscape 6.2 (because I still can) on MS Windows 2000 Professional on my laptop (because I have to). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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