From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 22 9:30:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED0321554D for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:30:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 120paP-0001pK-00; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:30:05 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA12525; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:30:04 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:30:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: MCI Worldcom Cc: questions FreeBSD Subject: Re: FW: UNIX Security Issue - URGENT In-Reply-To: <002701bf4c97$7d9d59a0$22a72ca6@david> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, MCI Worldcom wrote: >Have you ever heard of Linux? Apparently it's set to explode, so to speak, >on December 31, 1999. It's runs on virtually all Unix platforms. I believe >the forwarded information applies to the UK. already sounds suspicious... >I have attached several e-mails relating to this issue, but in summary:- xx >have identified a serious and potentially dangerous rogue program that is >believed to exist in all 'flavors' of UNIX. This is being dealt with Really? Even after all the source code audits and even across incompatible platforms? >them to remove Linux and check their boxes for the offending files? I will What are the offending files? >I support your position, there isn't any good business reason for us to be >running a shareware operating system within our environment. >> Operations view the use of > Linux on the network as potentially dangerous >and a clear threat to the > security of the network. This is the best part yet! I smell a rat... -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message