RE: Month of Kernel Bugs - day 1

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Craig Schmugar wrote:
> > As an educated consumer: yes.
>
> Then I'll add the word "all" to my statement [I might question the phrase
> "these days" in Gadi's statement "you are all more secure these days"]
>
> all <> "educated consumer"

Erm, all more secure these days, as a statement, links back to my previous
words in that paragraph/text.

Why do you disagree, let's open it for discussion.
> Craig
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:02 PM
> To: craig () getvirushelp com
> Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: RE: [funsec] Month of Kernel Bugs - day 1
>
> As an educated consumer: yes.
>
> - ferg
>
>
>
> -- "Craig Schmugar" <craig () getvirushelp com> wrote:
>
> Patch patch patch?  What patch?  Last time I checked there were 2 or maybe 3
> patches available for the 25 IE-related MoBB issues (from July).
>
> So, I might question the phrase "these days" in Gadi's statement "you are
> all more secure these days"
>
> Craig
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
> Behalf Of Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:02 AM
> To: Gadi Evron
> Cc: FunSec [List]
> Subject: Re: [funsec] Month of Kernel Bugs - day 1
>
> On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:41:17 CST, Gadi Evron said:
> > And don't anyone dare speak against HD Moore. He is the reason you are 
> > all more secure these days. Not less so.
>
> Amen to that - fire up Metasploit, build and launch something, and then
> mention that *every* hacker has a copy.  Makes even the most recalcitrant
> user curl up like a breaded prawn and want to go home and patch patch patch
> ;)
>
> (That, and Metasploit building blocks are an *incredible* reference if
> you're building *other* tools to look for either exploits or payloads. ;)
>
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg(at)netzero.net  ferg's
> tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>
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