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Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-13.UNIX.SCO-login.15-Apr-1994

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From: Gary L. Burnore
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 05:48
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Mike Shapiro aka mws@cs.brown.edu wrote:
{ This is the most ridiculous thing I have heard yet in this debate.  How
{ would you possibly "verify" sysadmins?  Hackers can break into your system --
{ they can also pretend to be sysadmins, they can also get a hold of these
{ supposed keys provided to people.  Not to mention all the work to maintain
{ this information which would have to be done by the 8lgm folks.  They're 
{ already giving us a lot of information for free as it is, and providing
{ free access to their advisories.  A more reasonable suggestion was made
{ to make one post which does not provide exploit details, followed by
{ another post some time later, e.g. a week, which provides full disclosure.
{ That seems to be the most reasonable compromise to me.

Attn Hackers:

We've found a bug in login that allows you to log in as root.  You have 
one week to figure out what it is before we tell system admins what it 
is.  Hurry now, you've only got 168 hours.

-- 
gburnore@garys.arasmith.com
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Subject: Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-13.UNIX.SCO-login.15-Apr-1994
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