RE: Administrivia: Pressured to delete archive entry

["Steve Wray" <steve.wray () paradise net nz>]

Watch out for cruise missiles and CIA wet boys...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com 
> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Len Rose
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 March 2003 9:19 a.m.
> To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] Administrivia: Pressured to delete 
> archive entry
>
>
>
> We have come under some pressure to delete part of the 
> information from the message disclosing the Kerberos 4 
> vulnerability recently posted.
>
> We would like to publicly announce our position in 
> regards to the material within the Full Disclosure 
> mailing list archives.
>
> We strongly feel that:
>
> 1. The archives reflect the entire mail traffic of the
>    list, which is composed of individual messages sent
>    by many different individuals. 
>
> 2. The contents of these messages have become a matter 
>    of public record once they were distributed to both
>    those who are subscribed to the mailing list, and 
>    mirrored by various sites who also archive the mailing 
>    list.
>
> 3. It would violate the editorial integrity of the 
>    archives and would also demonstrate a measure of
>    editorial control over the content of the archives 
>    that we are not prepared to exercise.
>
> 4. That it is pointless to "delete a message" since
>    the message contents are already widely disseminated, 
>    cached, stored, and otherwise ingested worldwide.
>
> To summarize, we are sorry that we cannot comply with
> any requests to delete the message in question, or any
> other for that matter.
>
>
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