Re: CERT/AUCERT

[aleph1 () dfw net (Aleph One)]

On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, itudps wrote:

> It seems to me that they might have a case for not acknowledging when all
> that was posted was an exploit, not a fix. However when both are posted
> together it smacks of plagurism to me to repost another version of the fix
> without acknowledgement. By this logic the author of the recent SGI stuff
> should get a mention but SOD should not, since SOD don't (as far as I can
> recollect) publish fixes as well.

   Please read your mail archives again. Yuri's fixes where as extensive
as those of SOD. In other words 'chmod u-s'. SOD just comes across with a
bit more flare should we say. It is also difficult to provide a fix
without access to source code.

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>  Information Technology Unit            Phone: +61 8 302 3479
>  University of South Australia          Fax  : +61 8 302 3385

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