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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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