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Re: The New Security Build Infrastructure



On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Stephen Stafford <stephen@clothcat.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > >> By the way, handling security updates this way conflicts more and more
> > >> with the Social Contract in its current form.
> 
> No, it does not.  It is a subjective matter, and to many of us the way
> security is being currently handled (need-to-know when it is required,
> disclosure when hole is fixed) is indeed the best we can do for our users.
> 
> Would you care to explain how "handling security matters responsibly, in
> order to keep open the very channels we need, so as to be more effective in
> those matters" is a "problem" that we are "hinding from our users"?
> 
> If you cannot do that, then please stop wasting our time.

This is not directed to Florian, but to whomever wrote those lines. I lost
the beginning of the thread...

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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