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From: jonathan@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jonathan Ball)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: patches and security
Message-ID: <7892@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 20 Jul 90 21:42:12 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <7871@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, I write:
 >Well, perhaps Jim Richardson and anyone else who DOES know what the problem
 >is, and HAS applied the patch, could tell us that information without
 >revealing the hole to the rest of the world.

In article <1990Jul20.031221.14378@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> jimr@maths.su.oz.au (Jim Richardson) writes:
 >Let's *please* give people some more time to install it before we start the
 >discussion [...] If there are people who *do* want to discuss
 >security issues in depth, please do it with CERT not on Usenet, at least
 >for the time being.

Agreed.  I apologize for opening the can of worms.  

Jon
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