Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:08:33 +0300 (EEST) From: Jarkko Santala <jake@iki.fi> To: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Cc: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>, Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org>, Ted Cabeen <secabeen@pobox.com>, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hogwash Message-ID: <20020625085925.R12462-100000@trillian.santala.org> In-Reply-To: <200206250556.PAA07738@tungsten.austclear.com.au>
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On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Tony Landells wrote: > jake@iki.fi said: > > How do you figure this works for commercial companies that need secsh > > connections for business critical needs up and running 24x7? > > A couple of possibilities that spring to mind are: > > 1. Buy the commercial version, and get commercial support. > > 2. Fund the OpenSSH development so they can put funded resources > on to fixing problems (and hence can ignore distracting influences > like actually making money to pay for food, or turning in assignments, > or ...) With the attitude OpenSSH team has? No commercial company will give money to someone who says "turn it off if it doesn't work". > If you expect a volunteer group to provide you with iron-clad secure > products, or to fix any found problems instantly, I think you're being > somewhat unrealistic. I don't expect, that is exactly what they claim they are doing, giving out iron-clad secure products. ;) I wasn't expecting an instant fix either, I was just pointing out an interesting attitude, "if it doesn't work, just it turn it off" while on the other hand advocating OpenSSH as a viable alternative to commercial products which do not have the luxury of telling that to their customers. ;) > They've found a problem, they've issued a warning, they're working on > a solution. How much more do you want for free??? A cup of java?-) -jake -- Jarkko Santala <jake@iki.fi> http://www.iki.fi/~jake/ System Administrator 2001:670:83:f08::/64 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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