Re: [SAtalk] Script to update bigevil.cf

2004-01-02 Thread Bob Apthorpe
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 17:47:43 + Barry Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/01/2004 16:03, Brad Koehn wrote: > [...] > > Yes, I'm paranoid, but the spammers have been going after sites using > > increasingly sophisticated techniques (DD

Re: [SAtalk] Script to update bigevil.cf

2004-01-02 Thread Barry Porter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/2004 16:03, Brad Koehn wrote: > These kinds of things make me nervous: automatically downloading code > from another site over insecure protocols and running it locally, > possibly as root. > > If we're going to distribute code, we really ne

Re: [SAtalk] Script to update bigevil.cf

2004-01-02 Thread Brad Koehn
These kinds of things make me nervous: automatically downloading code from another site over insecure protocols and running it locally, possibly as root. If we're going to distribute code, we really need some kind of signing mechanism like PGP, otherwise the bad guys will just start hacking the

[SAtalk] Script to update bigevil.cf

2004-01-01 Thread Barry Porter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have just written a new script in Perl to update bigevil.cf from Chris Santerre's site, compare it against the version currently in use and update if necessary, make a backup of the old script and send a notification email. The script has b