[27072] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo! Lessons Learned
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Shaw)
Wed Feb 9 00:14:24 2000
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 23:12:27 -0600 (CST)
From: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
To: "Henry R. Linneweh" <linneweh@concentric.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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It's not a matter of being good netizens. It's a matter of writing
non-exploitable code so attack software like trinoo and tribe don't end up
on your systems due to buffer-overflows in rpc or other services. No
amount of sales agreements is going to fix that as long as human beings
write code.
--
Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
Computer Security Consultant and Programmer
Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Henry R. Linneweh wrote:
> I think Sun could help here with adding something to their sales agreement
> that could result in people configuring their Sun boxes to be good net citizens.
