Re: Buffer overflows. was Re: EMERGENCY: new remote root exploit in UW imapd

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From
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Date
17 Jul 1998 20:14:51
Subject
Re: Buffer overflows. was Re: EMERGENCY: new remote root exploit in UW imapd
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21486.900731570@time.cdrom.com

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> The responses I've gotten can be grouped into the following broad
> categories-

Perhaps I can help. Language wars are an unwonted topic on
freebsd-security, whatever the justification, and a meta-discussion on
security as a function of one's chosen language is about as useful as
a meta-discussion on one's choice of OS. We're here to talk about
FreeBSD security, given the current suite of tools and languages that
exists today, and anything else is simply irrelevant.

In light of this, it's not too surprising that you got the wide
variety of feedback that you did. The points may be perfectly valid,
but they were raise in the wrong forum. Whatever the outcome of the
current discussion, I hope that people are at least now aware of that.

Regards,

- Jordan

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