[1017] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: New York Times article
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald E. Eastlake 3rd)
Thu Oct 12 14:30:10 1995
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:42:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>
To: Chris Garrigues <cwg@DeepEddy.Com>
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <v02120d00aca23c1d9dee@[192.12.3.3]>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
What is has to do with NetScape is (1) these guys had already de-compiled
NetScape so they knew just where to patch it to screw up its security and (2)
the news media is very sensitive to anything mentioning NetScape right now.
Donald
On Wed, 11 Oct 1995, Chris Garrigues wrote:
> At 3:03 PM 10/11/95, Prince, Cheryl wrote:
>
> > So, now I'm completely confused. Didn't we already know that, on its own, the
> > internet is hardly secure for the transmission of sensitive data?? The
> >article
> > does not explore these new "flaws" in the context of all the various security
> > architectures and firewalls etc. that have been and are being developed and
> > implemented. Has anyone else read the piece? Would anyone venture to make any
> > sense of it?
>
> I'd also thought that we all knew better than to run NFS on any host that's
> visible to the outside world. I hated having to follow a page one story to
> the third section to figure out that it was content-free.
>
> I really don't see what NFS has to do with netscape security (as implied by
> the article).
>
> Chris
>
> Chris Garrigues cwg@DeepEddy.Com
> Deep Eddy Internet Consulting +1 512 432 4046
> 609 Deep Eddy Avenue
> Austin, TX 78703-4513 USA http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/
>
>
>
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