Re: [Nolug] BLASTER...

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 21:42, Craig Jackson wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 August 2003 8:59 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 20:10, Alex McKenzie wrote:
> > > Craig Jackson wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 13 August 2003 7:22 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > >>Yet another reason why We are superior to Them. ;-)
> > > >
> > > > Very true, but as an administrator of a few windows servers, I have to
> > > > admit I was a little lax and almost got caught. I spent all evening Mon
> > > > night patching a handful of boxes against this and other stuff. Windows
> > > > is crap
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Don't get too smug now...
> > > CA-2003-21 :GNU Project FTP Server Compromise
> > > http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-21.html
> > >
> > > (had my hands full with blaster all damn day)
> >
> > I'm fully aware that "superior" doesn't mean "perfect".
> >
> > Besides, why not use scp instead? Only "distribution sites"
> > need internet-routeable ftp...
>
> Well, I think the problem is not so much FTP but the possibility that there
> may be spyware strung all throughout GNU software, though the wu-ftp is

You mean because the sources may have been compromised?

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