Re: [Sheflug] Sheflug Meeting / AccessSpace NIS

[Matthew Palmer <nospam [at] ieee.uow.edu.au>]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Will Newton wrote:

> > > PS. Next post will be wordwrapped, I promise....
> >
> > Thanks.  Luckily, I have the god of editors (joe), which handles these sorts
> > of brokennesses with a ^K J...
> 
> And also handles making your box insecure if recent announcements are
> anything to go by. :)
> Two rather schoolboy attacks have been uncovered in the last couple of
> months...

Yes, I know.  I read BugTraq and the other security announcements.  They're
not so much "schoolboy" attacks, as you put them (Whatever that means
anyway) but rather the warning of straying outside your home directory
space.

Yes, I'll agree that it does have potential for bad uses, but then again, so
does having . in your $PATH.  Do you?


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