From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Feb 10 14:42:52 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 2675F37B491 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:42:35 -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 14RioM-0000Em-00; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 15:48:11 -0700 Message-ID: <3A85C52A.1F398101@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 15:48:10 -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: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Matt Heckaman , Kris Kennaway , FreeBSD-ADVOCACY Subject: Re: FreeBSD Ports Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:INSERT_NUMBER_HERE References: <000801c093ad$bbf82140$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > -----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 Say rather than unknown, unpublished.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? No, but they'd still be bugs. -- "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