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Re: Crazy idea: tracking non-issues



On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 06:09:39PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> So, every now and then someone publishes an outrageous claim that's
> obviously just wrong to anyone with a high-level of technical
> knowledge.  However, for those with a low to moderate knowledge level,
> such things can seem scary, and to not see any kind of security
> advisory can be confusing, and could be misinterpreted as the
> distribution not really being proactive about security.
> 
> Anyway, I was thinking that maybe it would be useful to actually be
> such things with a quick note about why the publisher was wrong.  Not
> only would it be informative, it would also be educational for users
> interested in such things (perhaps as an "NVE-20XX-XXXX",
> Non-Vulnerabilities and Exposures").
> 
> Anyway, just a crazy thought prompted by:
> http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Aug/318

Several years ago there was a website somewhere below security.debian.org,
which listed non-issues like this. We can surely reintroduce something
like this if you want to work on it.

Cheers,
        Moritz


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