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Re: Security through obscurity, etc.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joshua geller)
Tue Dec 13 05:21:48 1994

From: joshua geller <joshua@dee.retix.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 01:11:17 -0800
To: jsz@ramon.bgu.ac.il
Cc: jason@dickory.sdsu.edu, elfchief@lupine.org, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <9412130418.AA23268@ramon.bgu.ac.il> (jsz@ramon.bgu.ac.il)


>   > I would rather have 8lgm then CERT. 

>   And the chaos & disorder on the net? 

>   CERT consists of beaurocrats; 8lgm of posers -- what's a difference, 
>   after all?

>   At least you can't use CERT's advisory to crack root on a site, and wipe
>   out important files; 8lgm's advisories were, and in fact are being used
>   for those purposes as well.

but if you're paying attention 8lgm will tell you about holes before
most of the teenyboppers get a hold of them.

josh








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