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From: mabon@infmx.UUCP (Pam Mabon)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Proposal for comp.security/alt.security
Message-ID: <589@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 88 19:35:44 GMT
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References: <2347@isis.UUCP> <22460@tis.llnl.gov> <1147@unisec.usi.com> <329@sulaco.UUCP>
Reply-To: mabon@infmx.UUCP (Pam Mabon)
Organization: Informix, Menlo Park, Ca. U.S.A.
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In article <329@sulaco.UUCP> allen@sulaco.UUCP (Allen Gwinn) writes:

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>Being extremely interested in security aspects of Unix, I think a
>newsgroup to discuss these issues in would be highly interesting.
>By exposing (and publicizing) security problems, you force manufacturers
>and OEM's to deal with the matter and not just sweep it under the
>rug.
>
>If the group idea doesn't go thru, I would be happy to create a 
>security mailing list on this system to pass information back and
>forth.  Is there any interest in this?
>
>-- 


I am extremely interested in this because one of the goals (there's a stronger
word for this, but I can't remember it) for my department is to increase
security both internally and externally.  If we open ourselves up as a news
feed then we're also opening a can of worms that would probably be better left
alone.  I would prefer a group because I know that whatever I might think of
or run across has probably already been thought of by most of the 
system-crackers out there.

Yes, there is interest, just let me know what I have to do to stay on the list
for whatever action is finally taken.



Thanks,

pam

"Today is the Tomorrow you feared Yesterday"