[7440] in bugtraq
Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kragen)
Wed Jul 29 00:14:55 1998
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:46:04 -0400
Reply-To: Kragen <kragen@POBOX.COM>
From: Kragen <kragen@POBOX.COM>
X-To: Peter W <peterw@CLARK.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980728122828.18234B-100000@shell.clark.net>
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Peter W wrote:
> I'd even venture
> to say MANY of us would rather have a benign cracker gain root and not
> misuse it than have the system rendered inoperable.
*I'd* certainly rather have a benign cracker crack root and not abuse
it -- I don't mind that at all, whereas DoSes range from being annoying
to being disastrous. They also happen to be really easy, unfortunately.
> I'd prefer that bugtraq continue to publish reports on
> DoS and crashing vulnerabilities.
As would I.
Kragen
