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Re: [SLUG] [ECOMM] Re: [LINK] Warnings over second "flaw" in RedHat Linux (fwd)

To: DaZZa <dazza@nospam.zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] [ECOMM] Re: [LINK] Warnings over second "flaw" in RedHat Linux (fwd)
From: Andrew Dorrell <dorrell@nospam.research.canon.com.au>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 13:29:48 +1000
Cc: Rick Welykochy <rickw@nospam.ce.com.au>, slug@nospam.slug.org.au
Organization: CISRA
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DaZZa wrote:
> 
> > He said he first found the flaw in 1997 when a server running Red Hat in
> > the data centre hosted by his company AH Net was hacked. He said that
> > Red Hat ignored his warning.
> 
> 1997, huh? 2 and a half whole YEARS ago? That'd be what, RH 3? Maybe RH4?

Indeed... if I had read this on the web I would instantly assume it was
a hoax (or the author was just trying to stir).  Its a pitty the papers
aren't a little more sensible about what they print... but IT is hardly
the only victim of that.

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