From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 10 13:25:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from war.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (war.OCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.191.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6840C37B403 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:25:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malcolm@OCF.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from apocalypse.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (malcolm@apocalypse.OCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.191.249]) by war.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f6AKPgV19621 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:25:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (malcolm@localhost) by apocalypse.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (8.11.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f6AKPUW25224 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:25:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: apocalypse.OCF.Berkeley.EDU: malcolm owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:25:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Malcolm Cc: Subject: Re: security advisories In-Reply-To: <011a01c10974$d5e2c730$0101a8c0@development.local> Message-ID: 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 Cheers to that! -Malcolm Today, at 12:16pm, John Howie kvetched: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "GomoR" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 12:07 PM > Subject: Re: security advisories > > > > > > If "those individuals" wanted to be aware of new security holes as quick > > as they are discovered, > > maybe they only need to subscribe to a security mailing list like the > > bugtraq one. > > I think security auditing is a full time job, and the FreeBSD team appear > > to be beginnger to > > this field. > > > > NO - they are volunteers with careers. And for my mind, they do an excellent > job with scant resources and support from the community at large. And I > thank them for that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message