From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Feb 10 13:35:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F54537B503 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 13:35:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14RhgT-0000Bv-00; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:35:57 -0700 Message-ID: <3A85B43D.507AF04@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:35:57 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Linh Pham , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Ports Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:INSERT_NUMBER_ HERE References: <20010210130001.A65847@mollari.cthul.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:51:13AM -0800, Linh Pham wrote: > > I personally think it would take too much manpower and resources to > > `audit' each and every port that is produce for each of the BSD's. But > > yes, it is quite funny to see a prankster tripping over his/her/it's own > > ranting :) > > Amusingly, FreeBSD *is* auditing parts of the ports collection. We've > discovered and published quite a few vulnerabilities already. Which indirectly benefits everyone else who uses these programs, including the OpenBSD ports system our antagonist is so undeservedly fond of. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message