From owner-freebsd-security Mon Aug 17 04:56:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA27684 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 04:56:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA27679 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 04:56:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id FAA21164; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 05:53:07 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199808171153.FAA21164@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1.0.44 (Beta) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 05:52:58 -0600 To: andrew@squiz.co.nz, Michael Richards <026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca> From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Why don't winblows program have buffer overruns? Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <199808162301.UAA09103@dragon.acadiau.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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