Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 05:52:58 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: andrew@squiz.co.nz, Michael Richards <026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why don't winblows program have buffer overruns? Message-ID: <199808171153.FAA21164@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980817210429.344B-100000@aniwa.sky> References: <199808162301.UAA09103@dragon.acadiau.ca>
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At 09:10 PM 8/17/98 +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: >Thinking a bit more about this, I suppose it says something about hackers >being motivated more by kudos than profit. While there isn't much >publicity to be had in hitting someone's desktop machine, those machines >probably account for most storage of sensitive data. But that data is also the least concentrated. Crack a server, and you'll get hundreds of users' private e-mail at once (for example). Crack a client, and you'll get one person's letters to Aunt Tillie, interspersed with a very occasional intersting piece of data.... --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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