Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 20:57:03 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Cc: petrilli@dworkin.amber.org, gbieker@crown.NET, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is there no info on the QPOPPER hack? Message-ID: <199807210257.UAA00240@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <199807211041.KAA26950@zeus.theinternet.com.au> References: <199807201845.MAA21839@lariat.lariat.org>
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At 10:41 AM 7/21/98 +0000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: >So fix it. > >If you can't fix it, wait for it to be fixed. >If you can't wait for it to be fixed either change to a different >vendor implementation or shut down. Possibly. But in this case, by the time I found out about the problem, someone else could already have fixed it and it could have been installed automatically on the system. Why re-implement the wheel or duplicate another's effort? >While these choice might be inconvenient, they are all you have. The point is that they're not. It'd be nice to get an automatic update that closes the hole. I might create the new version sometimes, but there's no reason for each person to do it every time. >If you want to whinge about lack of support/features, buy support >or buy a commercial OS (which almost certainly guarantees slower >response time, but, at least someone there will listen to you >whinge.) Well, the first thing I might "whinge" about is your spelling. But after I get through ribbing you about that, I'll continue to mount an effort to come up with a more sensible solution than trying to close every security hole myself, thank you. >And BTW C doesn't kill people, C Programmers kill people. In either case, the solution is to fix C or move to something else. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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