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On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:02:29PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: > Theory is fine, practice is that the closed disclosure list changes matters > for a vaste minority of people - those who are to install the fixed kernels > are in perfectly the same situation they would be in if there was a fully > open disclosure list. No, it's not the same. They're in a _worse_ situation if anything. With open disclosure, the bad guys get even more lead time. If admins don't install updates in a timely manner, there's not a lot we can do about it. For those that _do_ however, we can make their lives a lot more stress free. Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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