Re: Known vulnerabilities left open in Debian?
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 06:57:39PM +0100, Giacomo Mulas wrote:
> There is a \begin{sarcasm} nice \end{sarcasm} article in
> linuxworld Australia (see
> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1607539824;fp;2;fpid;1) which,
> among other things, claims that "Debian (Debian GNU/Linux) has left
> vulnerabilities there and didn't release any patches for them". While I
> can be sympathetic with Symantec people, who need to sell anti-virus
> software for a living and hence need to prove its sore need for whatever
> OS one may run, if I were in the Debian Security Team I would definitely
> be pissed off by something like this, and would release a harsh statement,
> based on hard facts, to counter this FUD.
>
> whaddyathink?
Maybe you should ask "NSW Fisheries principal IT services manager Gregory
Krasovitsky", who they were quoting.
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- mdz
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