[Sheflug] Flames & security (Was: Sheflug Meeting / AccessSpace NIS)

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 06:03:49PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
> > mkstemp?? That's not the fix, and it's certainly not an exploit. Do you
> > actually understand the advisory on SF?
> 
> Yeah, that was an ill-considered response, but I couldn't really be arsed
> at the time.

Said like a true slashdotter!! :P

Hopefully you've learned your lesson - never admit to being a vim user, lest 
people heckle you constantly :) (Are there any other vim users among us? Just
curiosity of course... <gets out notebook>)

And I won't mention the 'execute random code' in .vimrc exploit found in the 
past few days... that would be mean and continuing an OT thread.. 

Just goes to show though - joe, 6 yrs old, vim, still in development, there's 
nothing new (to exploit) under the sun....

Okay. I think I've stopped being mean :)

Cheers,

Alex.
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