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In article <3bdgml$ana@usenety1.news.prodigy.com>,
davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) wrote:
> 
> This "security by obscurity" policy is a crock; I've been helping keep
> business systems secure for over 25 years, and full disclosure has
> always been best, allowing the system administrators to understand and
> evaluate the problems for their own machines. This "we won't tell you
> what the problems is, but there is one, and the vendor will tell you
> when it's fixed, but you won't be able to test it because the problem is
> a SECRET only the few are allowed to know" policy translates to the
> crackers having the info on their mailing lists and BBS's, while
> legitimate system owners are in the dark.

You have made an eloquent case why sysadmins should monitor
cracker mailing lists, newsgroups, newsletters, BBSes, etc...

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