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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Security flaw in klock (fwd)
From:       Martin Jones <mjones () powerup ! com ! au>
Date:       1999-06-24 10:22:43
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Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 
> Mosfet wrote:
> >
> > Yes, it is rather interesting that these guys would post
> > bugreports everywhere but the kde or kde-user lists. Oh
> > well, what do you expect?
> 
> When the internet was still friendly you contacted the
> author of the software first before you post a detailed
> exploit.
> 
> Perhaps we should have a more prominent e-mail address
> to handle security related problems.
> 
> Anyway, has anybody looked into the problem? A patch would
> be sort of usefull. Microsoft gets accused of being slow
> when it says it needs 14 days for a patch. Lets show that
> we can do it in hours.

I'm looking into it now.

-- 
Martin Jones
mjones@kde.org

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