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marty, On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 10:22:07AM -0400, Hannigan, Martin wrote: > > rolling out magic code because your > > vendor tells you to is a bad idea; > > That's mostly the result of the calamitous failure in vulnerability > release methodology, not Operator stupidity. totally agreed. vendors c, j and several others should be *ashamed* of the way that they handled and continue to handle this issue: they have yet to admit that they raised a panic (in secret, with no facts, so that they could not be refuted) over a basic fact of the way tcp works, creating outages and instability to fix a non-problem. operators in those circumstances had little choice but to roll out "critical security fixes", but i think we all deserve an apology, an explanation and a commitment to do better in the future. t -- _____________________________________________________________________ todd underwood director of operations & security renesys - interdomain intelligence [email protected] www.renesys.com
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