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On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> It too seems to be vulnerable to various security holes in the recent and 
> not so recent past :-(

Name one thing that hasn't been.  The real issue, IMO, is not
having never had a security bug, but how quickly bugs are fixed
and how easy it is to apply the fixes.

-Mitch


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