From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 21 23:18:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E8B837B404 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 23:18:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0100.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.100] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17APSE-0002AZ-00; Tue, 21 May 2002 23:18:34 -0700 Message-ID: <3CEB381B.AB516BBC@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 23:18:03 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chip McClure Cc: Brad Knowles , FreeBSD Chat Mailing List Subject: Re: /.: Microsoft Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source References: <20020521180055.D98860-100000@hades.gigguardian.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I find it all incredibly amusing. If someone figures out how to exploit the bug, now that it's been "mentioned", then... Microsoft was right: disclosure results in exploits, and the source code is the most blatant possible disclosure If someone doesn't figure out how to exploit the bug, now that it's been "mentioned", then... Microsoft was right: it's only the non-publication of the source code itself which has saved us all Heads, I win, tails, you lose. 8-) -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message