From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Feb 10 14: 7: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9888237B491 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:06:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f1AM6W305589; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:06:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Matt Heckaman" , "Kris Kennaway" Cc: "FreeBSD-ADVOCACY" Subject: RE: FreeBSD Ports Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:INSERT_NUMBER_HERE Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:06:35 -0800 Message-ID: <000801c093ad$bbf82140$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Matt Heckaman > Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:13 PM > > This is the whole point! The REASON we've been seeing tons of port > advisories is because they are being audited. The security team should be > thanked for that. Otherwise these bugs would probably be unknown! > Say rather than unknown, unpublished. If nobody knew about them they wouldn't be security holes now would they? Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message