Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Jul 2000 04:30:59 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: TO HELL WITH IT THEN......(re: disk-destroyer.c) |
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On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 bodnar42@bodnar42.dhs.org wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > Since no one trusted that, I know what I am doing and required full > > > disclosure before I could complete the protection, we have to suffer the > > > outcome and work to prevent it now. > > > > Peer review has shown itself to be a good thing. This is how > > Linux came to be as it is today. > I've seen in many-a-changelogs of Alan's patches things along the lines of > 'plugged a security hole that nobody knew about until now'. There are > times when peer review is unnessisary and damaging. I really doubt there > is anybody that would find a serious mistake in one of Andres patches of > that sort. Its better if the code is improved upon once a fuctional > version is already present in the kernel
Obvious bug fixes are different from disableing a potentionally useful command, and from my understanding actually part of the SPEC, for fear of it being abused.
Stephen
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