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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: kstuff 0.18 (part 1/6)
Message-ID: <25361:May1416:31:0791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 14 May 91 16:31:07 GMT
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In article <9105131716.AA17481@rodan.UU.NET> kyle@UUNET.UU.NET writes:
> You did indeed post a fix.  But without the details, it's very
> hard for admins to come up with alternate solutions that don't
> impact their base of users and programs as much.

Fair enough. However, I'm not going to send break code to ten thousand
people on the off chance that one or two of them can come up with a
better solution.

> It's hard to
> close a hole if you don't know what it is.

I've said what the holes are. I'm just not showing people how to exploit
them in practice---yet.

---Dan