[8278] in bugtraq
"Default for floppy device increased from 600 to 666"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jarkko Hietaniemi)
Fri Oct 23 23:12:44 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 21:08:11 +0300
Reply-To: jhi@iki.fi
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@IKI.FI>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
It's rather amazing what (PC-minded?) marketing can make of a
conscious security relaxation. The latest maintenance release of
Digital UNIX contains among other features:
Default for floppy device increased from 600 to 666
(http://www.unix.digital.com/announcements/index.html)
I am no more in the position to raise hell over such stupidity,
perhaps someone who still is a Dig^WCompaq customer _or_ works for
Digital could see what's the story. Partly it's amusing: that
something this minuscule warrants a mention in the "executive
summary", partly it's sad to think for what no doubt useless reason
this change was made.
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