[Reader-list] Alan Cox & Linux Security (comments from a hippie...)

[Patrice Riemens]

(from the Hippies from Hell discussion list)


----- Forwarded message from Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> -----

Subject: Re: Alan Cox's Linux Security Holes Blues... (fwd)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:08:01 +0100



On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:35, Patrice Riemens wrote:
> Bwo the Sarai Reader-list. 10 days old, but sufficiently shocking. Sorry
> if you knew it all already, you slashdot punkos!

That article is so lame, I'm wondering whether the author is a village idiot 
from a particularly inbred village or whether they are a plain moron who's 
trying to write irony.

Alan is totally against the DMCA.  His stand on refusing to give security 
information to US citizens because of it is an act designed to provoke 
further opposition to that stupid law.

Anyway it had been well published before Alan's statement anyway, refusing to 
tell us something we already know doesn't mean much practically.  ;)

People who publish exploits are no more vulnerable now than they were before. 
Alan's actions change nothing unless they get enough Americans to complain 
about the stupid laws and get them changed.

A simpler solution for people who are bothered about stupid US laws is just 
to avoid the place.  With all the new security issues it's not as nice a 
place for a holiday as it used to be so there's no need to ever go there.

Also while we're on this topic, avoid buying American products when products 
from other countries will do.  Economic pressure is the best way to get 
changes in stupid American policies.

> ----- Forwarded message from Jaswinder Singh Kohli
> <jskohli at linux-delhi.org> -----
>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Keep Security Censorship Away From Linux
> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 01:04:41 +0530
>
>
>
> Opponents of vulnerability disclosure may have a surprise ally in
> Linux's second-in-command
> By Jon Lasser
> Nov 6 2001 11:00PM PT


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