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From: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do we get people to FIX things???
Message-ID: <1081@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 88 03:50:11 GMT
References: <1076@cps3xx.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu's message of 14 Nov 88 19:34:55 GMT

In article <1076@cps3xx.UUCP>, I wrote:
>  A little looking around campus here indicates
>that around 60% of our computers STILL have debugging enabled.
					     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  Someone kindly pointed out to me that having debugging is not the
real problem; the problem is that debugging lets you mail to programs.
So replace "debugging enabled" with "the original, insecure debugging
mode enabled" (or something to that effect).
  We now return you to your regular programming.

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| Anton Rang (grad student) | "UNIX: Just Say No!"   | "Do worry...be SAD!" |
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