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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/fortune fortune.c
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            "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: > not kludge around it with 1980's microsecond technology.
: 
: I can't see that there's much of a security implication in fortune.
: But now it's broken again.  Does that improve our security situation?

The problem is that if there's something wrong with /dev/random, that
must be fixed.  Fortune has no security implications, but if it is
bleating at us that there's a problem, then we must listen to it, not
paper it over.

Warner