From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 22 9:20:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from http.pe.net (http.pe.net [216.100.16.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD9A14DF5 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:20:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmahoney@http.pe.net) Received: (from dmahoney@localhost) by http.pe.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA20784; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:20:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19991222092051.A20578@pe.net> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:20:51 -0800 From: Dan Mahoney To: MCI Worldcom , questions FreeBSD Subject: Re: FW: UNIX Security Issue - URGENT References: <002701bf4c97$7d9d59a0$22a72ca6@david> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 In-Reply-To: <002701bf4c97$7d9d59a0$22a72ca6@david>; from MCI Worldcom on Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 11:13:31AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 11:13:31AM -0500, MCI Worldcom wrote: > This is being disseminated to all the developers at our office. I've > removed any names but the gist of the issues and 'security problems' are > still there. Anyone on the list heard about anything like this? Sounds like a clear anti-Linux hoax to me. Anyone can make claims about some obscure part of any OS having a hidden time-bomb. Given that just all parts of Linux (and FreeBSD, and NetBSD, etc) will have had a bunch of eyeballs applied to it in recent years, I have a very hard time believing that such a problem exists. Now it this supposed report was explaining hidden time bombs in Windows, I'd have no problems believing it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message