non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

[Tim]

On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 23:07 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> Nobody can take any protective measures short of switching everything
> to another distribution entirely without that sort of information in
> hand.  Are protective measures even required?  We don't know that
> either.

To be blunt, you don't even know if switching distros would fix the
problem.  If the fault lay with software common to both, you wouldn't
improve your situation.  You'd need to know where the vulnerability lays
to make that sort of decision.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686

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