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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