From: Mike Stroucken (stroucki@guild.net)
Date: 04/14/00-05:14:52 PM Z
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Stephen G. Walizer wrote:
> <sarcasm> Yes it would have been much better if they had never found the
> security whole and publicized it so the companies involved can fix it.
> It would have been much better to wait for someone malicious to figure
> it out and end up with a rash of nuked QNX boxes with no explanation.
> </sarcasm>
> now if QNX was open source this would already be fixed by now....
I guess it could have been an excusable mistake if QNX had been
written without any available resources in regards to the crypt()
function, but it's gross stupidity if there's code that works, and is
tested, and available for closed-source software houses to *leech* off
(I'm talking about BSD), and they don't make use of it.
Greetings,
Michael.
Objection overruled, Mr Cochran! "White Christmas"
does not have any racist overtones!
-- Lance Ito
Michael Stroucken stroucki@guild.net mstrouck@nyx.net Mud+IRC: Stroucki
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