Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:08:00 -0700 From: "Brett Glass at POST-IW1"<Brett_Glass_at_POST-IW1@infoworld.com> To: ben@narcissus.ml.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it safe? Message-ID: <8825643E.000BC0F6.00@IWND1.infoworld.com>
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New Text Item: Re: Is it safe? 2.2.0-R is in gamma. What I'm concerned about, again, is that there could be security holes in the code -- or Trojan horses in the ports and packages -- that might make it to release. --Brett It's safe, but you're going to have a hard time finding 2.2R, as it doesn't yet exist. On Thu, 13 Feb 1997 Brett_Glass@infoworld.com wrote: > I have two FreeBSD machines here -- one running a late SNAP of 2.1.5 and > another running 2.1.0-R. I'd been waiting to update them to 2.2.0-R, but > due to the recent break-in at cdrom.com I'm wondering if it is not best to > hold off -- especially because the ports and packages could have been > affected. Since the FreeBSD team didn't write these, and they're binaries, > they could hide Trojan horses very easily. > > What was the last released version of FreeBSD before the earliest known > break-in? > > --Brett > > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." SMTPOriginator: ben@narcissus.ml.org
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