On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 10:29:21AM +0100, Matt Kern wrote: > I've been using Debian for about one and a half years now, and was > recently surprised to hear that Debian had a bad reputation as far as > security matters went. I don't know if this reputation was deserved or > how much Debian has improved since then. One of the examples that the > person that told me this came up with was something to do with the X > wrapper program. It was all news to me; I thought that a system like > Debian's corrected problems (especially security related items) very > quickly, certainly much quicker than you would ever get a fix out of > Microsoft... Don't believe everything you hear. A potential vulnerability in our X server wrapper was brought to my attention about the time I took over maintainership, and it was fixed about a year ago; maybe a little more, IIRC. Neither hamm nor slink shipped with that vulnerability. I think it likely that your friend is just confused. -- G. Branden Robinson | "To be is to do" -- Plato Debian GNU/Linux | "To do is to be" -- Aristotle branden@ecn.purdue.edu | "Do be do be do" -- Sinatra cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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