Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:23:57 -0700 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Jochem Kossen <j.kossen@home.nl>, frank@exit.com, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security through obscurity? (and /etc/defaults/rc.conf changes) Message-ID: <20020423222357.D3593@HAL9000.wox.org> In-Reply-To: <3CC5A7DC.FD06DC11@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:28:44AM -0700 References: <200204231454.g3NEsxFR019646@realtime.exit.com> <200204231839.44923.j.kossen@home.nl> <3CC5A7DC.FD06DC11@mindspring.com>
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Thus spake Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>: > The entire idea of "bit rot" is really "the code did not keep > ``up to date'' with my changes, which broke the code", which > is really a ridiculous position. > > It really pissed me off when the AHA-1742 support dropped out > when CAM came in, but that, at least, was understandable, since > it was a trade: something deisrable for something less desirable > to the majority of users. > > You really *can not* blame breaking "something that used to work > but which no longer works" on "evolution". Aah...we'd better put uucp back in the base system, then. Never mind that it might have security problems that we don't know about. :P To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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