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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2001 02:58:09 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        tedm@toybox.placo.com (Ted Mittelstaedt)
Cc:        matt@LUCIDA.CA (Matt Heckaman), kris@obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway), freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-ADVOCACY)
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Ports Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:INSERT_NUMBER_HERE
Message-ID:  <200102120258.TAA17366@usr08.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <000801c093ad$bbf82140$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> from "Ted Mittelstaedt" at Feb 10, 2001 02:06:35 PM

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> Say rather than unknown, unpublished.  If nobody knew about them they
> wouldn't be security holes now would they?

If a bug falls in the code, and there's no one there to audit it,
does it still make a security hole?

Sorry, but if a tree falls in the forest, and there's no one there
to hear it, it still makes a longitudinal compressional wave... and
a sound, if chaos theory is to be believed.

					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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