From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 18:14:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA28167 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 18:14:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from lserver.infoworld.com (lserver.infoworld.com [192.216.48.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA28142 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 18:13:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from IWND1.infoworld.com (iwnd1.infoworld.com [192.216.49.131]) by lserver.infoworld.com (8.8.5/8.8.5/GNAC-GW-2.1) with SMTP id SAA10929; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 18:13:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by IWND1.infoworld.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.05 (305.3 1-15-1997)) id 8825643E.000BD996 ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 18:09:26 -0700 X-Lotus-FromDomain: IW @ IWP From: "Brett Glass at POST-IW1" To: ben@narcissus.ml.org cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <8825643E.000BC0F6.00@IWND1.infoworld.com> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:08:00 -0700 Subject: Re: Is it safe? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk New Text Item: Re: Is it safe? 2.2.0-R is in gamma. What I'm concerned about, again, is that there could be security holes in the code -- or Trojan horses in the ports and packages -- that might make it to release. --Brett 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." SMTPOriginator: ben@narcissus.ml.org