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From: clb@loci.UUCP (Charles Brunow)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Dangerous hole in Usenet!
Keywords: "it's a secret ... but they told me!" -- david dobkin
Message-ID: <178@loci.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 88 23:12:29 GMT
References: <1227@vsi1.UUCP> <117@hudson.Morgan.COM> <800@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>
Organization: Loci Products, 75083
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In article <800@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>, honey@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (peter honeyman) writes:
+ the major hole has to do with handing certain news articles to
+ sed|sh.  this preposterous move is anathema to anyone with a
+ semblance of concern for the integrity of his system.
+ 
+ 	peter

	Somebody save me the trouble of loading and grep'ing the news
	sources ... is this part of the standard news software?  While
	I sort of understand some people's reluctance to post hole info,
	it would save a lot of people a lot of time if there is enough
	info to determine who is at risk for any given problem and who
	isn't.  If everyone is going to have to figure out each problem
	for themselves, we're going to have much more cracking knowledge
	from sheer necessity.

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