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From: rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Irresponsibility (Was: Security problem on UNIX PC's)
Message-ID: <1569@oxtrap.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 18:57:38 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  9 18:57:38 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 06:38:39 EDT
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Reply-To: rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Organization: Oxford TP, Ann Arbor
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Keywords: security
Summary: wheel reinvention

This issue has also been discussed in the risks forum, the ACM, the
arpa net etc, the most recent vote I've seen held the majority,
(~60-40), to feel that publicizing holes is better for the lock-ers
than for the lock-breakers.  The theory is similar to the handgun
discussion, (NO FLAMES NO FOLOWUPS ON HANDGUNS!), that the criminals
WILL have the tools and that the black-market will propogate them, so
its best if we arm the good guys the best we can.

In other words, Brant's work has made my 3b1 more than twice as useful
as it started out, but in this case I, and usually the majority,
dis-agree with him.

xoxorich.

ps, I seem to have lost Brant's gnu-keymaps.  Can someone send them to
me again?