Re: [techtalk] Eric Raymond, MS security, and open source..

2001-05-15 Thread coldfire
> > > > > > However, I don't see why they make such a big fuss about it; after all, > > > Linux has backdoors too so there's no difference between them. > > > > > > > 'cos you can find and close the backdoors with open source stuff (or was > > that irony above?). > > I was deliberately mocking

Re: [techtalk] Eric Raymond, MS security, and open source..

2001-05-15 Thread coldfire
> Daniel Manrique thought: > > > > However, I don't see why they make such a big fuss about it; after all, > > Linux has backdoors too so there's no difference between them. > > > > 'cos you can find and close the backdoors with open source stuff (or was > that irony above?). linux has backdoo

Re: [techtalk] Eric Raymond, MS security, and open source..

2001-05-15 Thread Daniel Manrique
> > > > > > However, I don't see why they make such a big fuss about it; after all, > > Linux has backdoors too so there's no difference between them. > > > > 'cos you can find and close the backdoors with open source stuff (or was > that irony above?). I was deliberately mocking the entire "

Re: [techtalk] Eric Raymond, MS security, and open source..

2001-05-15 Thread Conor Daly
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:16:51PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Daniel Manrique thought: > > > However, I don't see why they make such a big fuss about it; after all, > Linux has backdoors too so there's no difference between them. > 'cos you can find and close the backdoors with op

RE: Re: [techtalk] Eric Raymond, MS security, and open source..

2001-05-14 Thread clburke
Indeed Slashdot has it. Still wondering why this can of worms suddenly popped open today. Hmm.. C http://www.fscinternet.com http://www.sercureXpert.com http://diary.carolyn.org ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/ma

Re: [techtalk] Eric Raymond, MS security, and open source..

2001-05-14 Thread Daniel Manrique
> I just got this note from Eric Raymond in my inbox. I must be on his > PR list. > > I can't find any references online currently to the MS IIS backdoor ESR > refers to. Have any of you heard of the backdoor, or seen security or > press coverage of it? It's not on buqtraq or securityfocu

Re: [techtalk] Eric Raymond, MS security, and open source..

2001-05-14 Thread Kai MacTane
At 5/14/01 05:52 PM , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I can't find any references online currently to the MS IIS backdoor ESR >refers to. Have any of you heard of the backdoor, or seen security or >press coverage of it? It's not on buqtraq or securityfocus or slashdot >or... yet. It is on Slashdot,

Re: [techtalk] Eric Raymond, MS security, and open source..

2001-05-14 Thread Melissa Plunkett
It was on slashdot today: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/14/1858201&mode=thread and it was posted last year as well (which slashdot notes in the post above). Melissa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi there, > > I just got this note from Eric Raymond in my inbox. I must be on his > PR

[techtalk] Eric Raymond, MS security, and open source..

2001-05-14 Thread clburke
Hi there, I just got this note from Eric Raymond in my inbox. I must be on his PR list. I can't find any references online currently to the MS IIS backdoor ESR refers to. Have any of you heard of the backdoor, or seen security or press coverage of it? It's not on buqtraq or securityfocus