Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 10:16:36 -0600 (MDT) From: kduling@natasha.scccc.com (Kevin J. Duling) To: owner-freebsd-security@freefall.freebsd.org (Glen Foster) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, coredump@nervosa.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: very bad Message-ID: <199605171616.KAA15759@natasha.scccc.com> In-Reply-To: <199605171100.HAA00301@ptavv.nsta.org> from "Glen Foster" at May 17, 96 07:00:35 am
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> I, for one, am very happy that he announced it to the group rather > than attempting STO. I was able fix the systems for which I have > responsibility immediately. Thanks to Chris for getting the word out! > --- > Glen Foster <gfoster@gfoster.com> I agree. I once had a talk with Chris McDonald from WSMR about system security and the debate about whether or not to protect your system through ignorance or not. I was a student at NMSU at the time, working on a paper for system security on NMSU-NET. My audience was my instructor who was also my manager at the Computer Center. Wow, did that stir up a hornets nest, but that's another story... If you don't announce the bugs, then the crackers learn them while the admins are left in ignorance. You're not going to find a forum where you know you're only telling "the right people" about the problem. Now I'm wondering about how many others are out there that I don't know about because they weren't posted on the lists I read. Who's Chris McDonald? One of the few people who listened to Cliff Stoll. -- Kevin J. Duling /\/^\^/^\^\/\ SCC Communications Corp. kduling@scc911.com Boulder, Colorado (303) 581-5769
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