From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 21 04:23:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA00882 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 04:23:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA00864 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 04:23:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA08138; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 04:21:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Brett Glass cc: Garance A Drosihn , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Projects to improve security (related to C) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Jul 1998 05:20:24 MDT." <199807211120.FAA07335@lariat.lariat.org> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 04:21:56 -0700 Message-ID: <8134.901020116@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > More like audit, audit, audit, audit, audit, audit, audit.... Ad > infinitum. Ad nauseam. Unreliably. Missing all sorts of holes and > bugs. It's not only tedious -- it also doesn't work. I suspect Theo would disagree with you, but short of switching everyone over to Java or installing a series of band-aid patches which only fix _some_ of the problems (and, in security, that really is locking the door while leaving the window open) I fail to see how you intend to deal with it in any more pragmatic a fashion. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message