From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 25 01:22:01 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA03383 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 01:22:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfw.dfw.net (aleph1@dfw.dfw.net [198.175.15.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id BAA03377; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 01:21:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by dfw.dfw.net (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19680; Wed, 25 Dec 96 03:21:25 CST Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 03:21:25 -0600 (CST) From: Aleph One To: David Greenman Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Peter Wemm , Nate Williams , freebsd-core@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP Filtering to www.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199612250902.BAA02033@root.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, David Greenman wrote: > It should be pointed out that Theo has theatened to sick his cracker > friends onto to freefall and other machines to somehow "prove" that FreeBSD > was insecure (with the apparant implication that OpenBSD IS secure). He > has "apparantly" claimed that they have already broken into "Walnut Creek > CDROM" machines several times. I haven't tried to filter Theo or his cohorts > from wcarchive, but this was at least part of the motivation behind the IP > filter on freefall. Actually all of this filtering stuff is rather stupid. > What we should do is simply gather evidence and prosecute. :-( Those are some rather serious accusations. One thing is accusing someone be being a asshole, another to say he or "his cohorts" have broken into anything. I really hope you got something to back that up. > -DG > > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project Aleph One / aleph1@dfw.net http://underground.org/ KeyID 1024/948FD6B5 Fingerprint EE C9 E8 AA CB AF 09 61 8C 39 EA 47 A8 6A B8 01