From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 15 16: 1:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 461A937B7B5; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:01:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA90553; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:01:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:01:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: John Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS gets caught? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, John wrote: > Found it to be a bit interesting... especially that M$ says they will > "warn the largest web providers in the US" about the problem... in other > words, they're saying "screw all the other countries, and screw the little > and medium sized guys". Well, I hate to be fair to Microsoft, but how would you go about warning _all_ users of your product? They presumably have special support contracts with the aforementioned largest providers, so they can contact them proactively. They've already released a security advisory about it, which is the only thing they usually do for security problems - any M$ product user who is interested in security matters would already have seen it. Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message