I love IP Tables....

[jdow]

From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>

> jdow wrote:
>> 
>> And the first time a Fedora Core release is hacked Red Hat goes out of
>> business. Is this your goal? (Mind you, there are days when I have
>> uttered enough unkind words Fedora-wards that I'd applaud the concept.
>> Note, there are not as many such days as there are days I've felt the
>> urge to disembowel somebody on the Microsoft campus - which would be
>> too kind for some of them such as the doofus who invented "Clippy.")
>> 
> Why? Did they produce software with a design flaw? Was the box
> cracked because of software they wrote, because of software from an
> upstream vendor, or because someone change the default configuration
> to an insecure one? Did they know about a bug, and hide the fact,
> trying for security by obscurity because it would be too hard to fix?

Did the company do more than simply tie the packages up in a pretty
box? If they modify the packages in any way they are the last ones in
line who could have mitigated the danger, other than the user.

{^_^}