From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 16 09:32:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A0C516A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.celabo.org (gw.celabo.org [208.42.49.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA3B43D53 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:32:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@celabo.org) Received: from madman.celabo.org (madman.celabo.org [10.0.1.111]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))verified)) by gw.celabo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 714DD5485D for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:32:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: by madman.celabo.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 172A76D455; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:32:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:32:42 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20040416163241.GA49780@madman.celabo.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org References: <20040407154220.GA5651@madman.celabo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040407154220.GA5651@madman.celabo.org> X-Url: http://www.celabo.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: HEADS UP Re: Changing `security@freebsd.org' alias X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:32:43 -0000 Hello again, The change discussed earlier has been made. Email to now reaches the security team rather than any public list. If you find any references to as a public list, please let me know. It appears that there were none on the web site or handbook or FAQ, but there could be some I missed. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:42:20AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > Hello Folks, > > The official email address for this list is > `freebsd-security@freebsd.org'. Due to convention, there is an email > alias for this list: security@freebsd.org, just as there is for > hackers@ & freebsd-hackers@, arch@ & freebsd-arch@, and so on. > > The security@freebsd.org alias has been the source of occassional > problems. Several times in the past, postings have been made to that > address under the assumption that address was directed to security > response personnnel, and not a public mailing list. Of course, this > was a reasonable assumption. Practically every vendor in the universe > uses security@ for that purpose, largely because RFC 2142 strongly > recommends it for that purpose. > > And sometimes one just makes a typo. It has not been > too uncommon for people to forget the `-officer' part of > `security-officer@freebsd.org'. (Yours truly has been guilty of > this.) > > Mistaken early disclosure of a vulnerability can have consequences > from the merely embarrasing to catastrophic. Therefore, I am > proposing that `security@freebsd.org' be re-routed to the Security > Officer. > > I imagine this will have some significant impact: there must be > many references to security@freebsd.org as a public list out there. > So, I thought I'd air the issue here before sending any request to > postmaster@. > > Cheers, > -- > Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >