From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jul 17 10: 4:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98EA037B9BE for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:04:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA58868; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:04:13 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:04:13 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Justin Wolf Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Displacement of Blame[tm] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Justin Wolf wrote: > Maybe I missed it in this really long thread somewhere, but why do we have > to say that it concerns FreeBSD at all? If it's a bug/hole in a port, it > has nothing to do with FreeBSD except for the fact that the user MAY have > installed this port, which of course comes from a third party, but was > compiled by the FreeBSD organization. > Because the ports/packages are on the CDs. As "we" distribute them, it is only nice "we" acknowlege an inform people of the vulnerabilities. "We" being the project in this case, I guess. [snip] > -Justin > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message