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Re: Security through obscurity, etc.
From: jason () dickory sdsu edu (Jason Matthews)
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 22:47:53 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 13 Dec 1994, jsz wrote:
CERT consists of beaurocrats; 8lgm of posers -- what's a difference, after all?
8lgm does not pretend to be god's gift to the net.
At least you can't use CERT's advisory to crack root on a site, and wipe out important files; 8lgm's advisories were, and in fact are being used for those purposes as well.
I am sure this has been said by doozens of people but: If you restrict exploits to the script hackers then only the script hackers will know what they are. In turn, organizations like CERT will not know what they are until some time after the release; when the effects can be exaimed second hand. Pick your posion. Jason ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- jason () dickory sdsu edu San Diego State University jason () mentor sdsu edu College of Engineering jason () BOOM extern ucsd edu Electrical*Computer Engineering ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- Re: Security through obscurity, etc. Jason Matthews (Dec 12)
- Re: Security through obscurity, etc. jsz (Dec 12)
- Re: Security through obscurity, etc. Jason Matthews (Dec 12)
- Re: Security through obscurity, etc. jsz (Dec 13)
- Re: Security through obscurity, etc. joshua geller (Dec 13)
- No more religious wars please! (was Re: Security through obscurity, Christopher Samuel (Dec 13)
- Re: Security through obscurity, etc. James M. Chacon (Dec 13)
- Re: Security through obscurity, etc. Oliver Friedrichs (Dec 13)
- Re: Security through obscurity, etc. Leo Bicknell (Dec 13)
- Re: Security through obscurity, etc. Oliver Friedrichs (Dec 13)
- Re: Security through obscurity, etc. Jason Matthews (Dec 12)
- Re: Security through obscurity, etc. Jim Littlefield (Dec 14)
- Re: Security through obscurity, etc. jsz (Dec 12)
- Re: this is interesting... Paul 'Shag' Walmsley (Dec 13)