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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 17:26:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
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Subject: Re: Is it safe?
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It's safe, but you're going to have a hard time finding 2.2R, as it 
doesn't yet exist.

On Thu, 13 Feb 1997 Brett_Glass@infoworld.com wrote:

> I have two FreeBSD machines here -- one running a late SNAP of 2.1.5 and
> another running 2.1.0-R. I'd been waiting to update them to 2.2.0-R, but
> due to the recent break-in at cdrom.com I'm wondering if it is not best to
> hold off -- especially because the ports and packages could have been
> affected. Since the FreeBSD team didn't write these, and they're binaries,
> they could hide Trojan horses very easily.
> 
> What was the last released version of FreeBSD before the earliest known
> break-in?
> 
> --Brett
> 
> 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."