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Re: Security through obscurity, etc.
From: iceman () MBnet MB CA (Oliver Friedrichs)
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 11:45:57 -0600 (CST)
On Tue, 13 Dec 1994, James M. Chacon wrote:
Wrong...I've used the information in CERT advisories to give me a good idea where and what I'm looking for. I've "reverse-engineered" so to speak a fair amount of Cert's announcements into actaul problems I could show people around here. All Cert's announcements do is delay the time people get to even know a bug exists....I'm not really for the 8lgm concept completely, but at least there they don't feel this overwhelming need to not hurt the various manufacturers feelings....
Poor comparison. A script that guarantee's root on a site is equal to a CERT advisory? I don't know which advisories your reading. (send me one?). The difference is too large to even argue about. A CERT advisory doesn't give root to someone on any unprotected system on the Internet. Perhaps 1 in 10 people will figure out the problem, would you rather have 10 out of 10 people be guaranteed to? Think about it. - Oliver
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)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Security through obscurity, etc. Richard Forno (Dec 12)
- Re: Security through obscurity, etc. der Mouse (Dec 16)