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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:22:40 -0800
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
To:        paul@freebsd-services.co.uk
Cc:        kris@obsecurity.org, gsutter@zer0.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: proposals for fixing the PROBLEM at hand
Message-ID:  <20010314102240A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <3AAF86A6.65492AEC@freebsd-services.co.uk>
References:  <20010314005648.I9369@klapaucius.zer0.org> <20010314011016.A28290@mollari.cthul.hu> <3AAF86A6.65492AEC@freebsd-services.co.uk>

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> Well I was under the impression that you were going to be quite pedantic
> about it being security fixes only. If it's critical bugfixes as well
> then that's exactly what I've been calling for.

They would have to be so critical as to constitute something like a
panic() which joe user could induce by running a common command,
arguably a DoS anyway and something back in the security category.
You're not going to get your "has all the necessary updates, runs
all the latest software" goal out of this at all and you'll still
need to act like a real admin. :)

- Jordan

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