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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD mention in RISKS.digest
Date: 3 Aug 1995 06:19:32 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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dwhite@anshar.shadow.net (Don Whiteside) wrote:
] The Washington Post Monday business section has a regular "shorts"
] called "Digital Flubs", in which they report on interesting goofs.
] Many of them appear to be culled (without attribution) from RISKS.
]
] The June 26 edition reads as follows:
] A piece of security software widely used on computer networks has
] a hole in it. [CERT] said it has distributed instructions on how
] to correct the problem in FreeBSD, a program created by a software
] engineer in the Netherlands. In some circumstances, the hole lets
] people tapping into a computer see and alter information that should
] be off-limits to them. FreeBSD is an "enhancement" to S/Key, a
] program that controls password access to networked computers.
] S/Key itself does not have the problem.
Wanna get some real press, Jordan? Ask the WP to print a
correction, and tell what FreeBSD really is.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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