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Re: red worm amusement



On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:40:11AM -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 10:26:38PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:02:54PM -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > > 
> > > Oh, I guess anyone can say something like "Four years without a remote
> > > hole in the default install!" on the internet, where anyone is free to
> > 
> > that quote is pure marketing.  
> 
> Marketing?  OpenBSD has about as much of an adversising dept as does 
> Debian.  None.

You don't need a marketing department to practice the 'art' of marketing.

> > they don't count the recent ftpd remote
> > root hole in that `four years' because they stopped activitating ftpd
> > in the default install of OpenBSD 2.7, which was released only a very
> > short time before the hole was discovered.
> 
> And so the default install was not vulnerable to remote attacks.  Like

Debian's default install is not vulnerable to attacks either. Your point?

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