Re: Yahoo! Lessons Learned

[Joe Shaw <jshaw () insync net>]

It's not a matter of being good netizens.  It's a matter of writing
non-exploitable code so attack software like trinoo and tribe don't end up
on your systems due to buffer-overflows in rpc or other services.  No
amount of sales agreements is going to fix that as long as human beings
write code.

--
Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw () insync net    
Computer Security Consultant and Programmer
Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Henry R. Linneweh wrote:

> I think Sun could help here with adding something to their sales agreement
> that could result in people configuring their Sun boxes to be good net citizens.