Re: UnixWare

[rcm () bullwinkle us dell com (Ron McDowell)]

Michael Neuman wrote:
> > From spaf () cs purdue edu Wed Apr 27 11:52:25 1994
>
> > If you are going to direct criticism, direct it where it
> > belongs -- at vendors (and at customers who blindly buy the crap some
> > vendors put out).
>
>  I'd agree with you EXCEPT I wasn't suggesting CERT should "fix the
> bugs faster" as you imply. I'm complaining that they get a report of
> a hole, pass it on to the vendors, and that's it. As I said above, I'd
> much rather shut down some functionality on my system and wait for
> a patch then leave my systems wide open. This is not a criticism of
> CERT per se, but just the systems we have in place in general. If CERT
> doesn't want this task of sending out advisories that look like, "There's
> a problem in rdist, shut it down completely until a patch is available or
> else..." than someone else should.
And the added pressure on the vendors by making these things public
sooner might help to light a fire under them to get their code cleaned up,
which would be a big plus for all of us.

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