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Date:      Tue, 13 Oct 1998 19:05:56 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>
Cc:        "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Spoofed connections on port 13223??
Message-ID:  <4.1.19981013190522.00c4a200@mail.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9810141050001.14321-100000@banshee.cs.uow.e du.au>
References:  <4.1.19981013162129.0475b390@mail.lariat.org>

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At 10:58 AM 10/14/98 +1000, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote:
 
>Brett, when you statements like that, be sure to "qualify" them and
>say something along the lines of "in my experience, they are
>ineffectual...", etc. Perhaps if you think about the security situation
>at the time, with potentially hundreds of machines being attacked as a
>result of the same bug you got rooted with, they have to set some sort
>of priority over who they handle first. From my limited interactions
>with them, they explicitly state they will deal with situations of
>life-threatening importance first, and then work their way down. Your
>network may not have been high on their list. You cannot fault them for
>this.

I asked about this. They did not indicate anything of the sort; just said
they got a lot of mail.

--Brett


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