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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!feeder.chicago.cic.net!mr.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!feed1.news.erols.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 10:11:58 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 15 Message-ID: <32FB463E.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <KETIL-ytqiv47v56j.fsf@pinro.imr.no> <5daavp$8lp@panix2.panix.com> <KETIL-ytqbu9yfheu.fsf@imr.no> <5dfcpj$t45@agate.berkeley.edu> <DERAADT.97Feb7073546@zeus.theos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:82770 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2355 comp.os.linux.misc:156770 Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Or that the bug was reported in many public places more than a week > ago by Thomas Ptacek. But I can see how absolutely harrowing this > discovery must be to the FreeBSD developers. > Yep, we only found out about it a few days ago, and now Tom is one of our committers. It is probably very good to have a competent ISP represented on the committers list. I have personally been in contact with another, very security consious ISP, and hope to develop an effective working relationship with him also. John