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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Security flaw in klock (fwd)
From:       Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date:       1999-06-24 11:40:46
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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, 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. 

You were expecting friendliness? Heh ;-) This is the same person that posting
whining about having to update the RH KDE RPM in the BugTraq report as well
as posting detailed exploits everywhere *but* the KDE lists like kde or
kde-user... 

How many Gnome updates have there been - 5, 6?? Speaking of Gnome, do any of you
find it funny that RH has a Gnome developer working on the KDE RPM's, searching
for exploits, and posting detailed hack instructions everywhere but here
(http://gnome.labs.redhat.com/thanks.shtml)? I really don't trust RH at all
anymore now, esp with all the reports of problems users have been making with
the KDE configuration and the activities of their employees. 

> 
> 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> Waldo
> -- 
> KDE, A New Millennium, A New Desktop                      http://www.kde.org
-- 
Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
mosfet@kde.org
mosfet@jorsm.com

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