On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 00:22:29 -0500 Chris Keelan <rufmetal-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

Ask yourself: if this were a certain proprietary company, would this news leak out so quickly, and would said organization publish a detailed post-mortem as soon as one is available?

There's no "if". Microsoft actually got seriously pissed recently when news of *seven* new vulnerabilities, two of them critical, was released to the general public rather than being privately and secretly notified themselves. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!"-- Rick Mercer -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml