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From: eric@hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: the how and why of plugging holes
Summary: Are all vendors on the security mailing list?
Keywords: security cliques lists
Message-ID: <869@hdr.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 88 16:10:49 GMT
References: <456@l5comp.UUCP> <12081@dscatl.UUCP> <16600@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <2279@looking.UUCP> <27203@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <4113@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu>
Reply-To: eric@hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson)
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Organization: Amperif Corporation.  Omaha, NE
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In article <4113@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:
>For systems with sources, the current mechanisms are not bad.  But I
>really worry about the rest of them out there.  At the very least, I
>hope that all vendors of unix systems monitor ucb-fixes, and the
>security mailing list, and just for fun, do something about what they
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Ha!  You assume, of course, that all vendors fit the criterion for being
on the security mailing list.  Unless one of the "Good 'Ol Boys/Girls" in
the Security Cabal happens to work for the vendor, that probably won't
occur.

-- 
Eric J. Johnson,  Amperif Corporation. 
UUCP: eric@hdr.UUCP
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