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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!sprint!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.mindspring.com!reflections.eng.mindspring.net!tlewis From: Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.security.unix Subject: Re: *BSD* Security WWW/Mailing List? Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 07:51:30 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 30 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970421074638.789X-100000@reflections.eng.mindspring.net> References: <3356E1CC.299E@softway.com.au> <335798C2.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <DERAADT.97Apr18181055@zeus.pacifier.com> <5jdgaf$34i@cynic.portal.ca> <5jf1kg$hci$1@news.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mirror.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Server-Date: 21 Apr 1997 11:51:33 GMT X-Sender: tlewis@reflections.eng.mindspring.net In-Reply-To: <5jf1kg$hci$1@news.iastate.edu> Return-Receipt-To: tlewis@mindspring.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6700 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3041 comp.security.unix:33798 On 21 Apr 1997, Phillip F Knaack wrote: > cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes: > > >In article <DERAADT.97Apr18181055@zeus.pacifier.com>, > >Theo de Raadt <deraadt@theos.com> wrote: > > >>Yeah, FreeBSD has fixed a few holes. > > >As has OpenBSD. Although I notice your FTP server still has no way > >of doing anonymous uploads that are secure from abuse by warez-traders. > > >But heck, let's spend our time making snide comments instead of > >working to fix security problems and share the information so that > >the fixes can be as widely distributed as possible. > > Its difficult to tell if you're kidding or not, considering that > 'snide comments' is all you ever seem to produce. You know, it really is unfair that Linux gets all this good press while the BSD'ers are discounted as a bunch of petty, bickering short-sighted nincompoops. Watching the four BSD factions go at each other here, I am mystified how people got that misconception in the first place. Fule, fire. Fire, fuel. 8^) -- Todd Graham Lewis Linux! Core Engineering MindSpring Enterprises tlewis@mindspring.com (800) 719 4664, x2804