From: Wes Kussmaul <wes@ReliableID.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Debian bug 737206 - rc shell uses insecurely /tmp
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 15:56:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54836D78.4060809@ReliableID.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f2c0f0c6af3e1b2e178d0a587611b36b@lilly.quanstro.net>
On 12/06/2014 01:41 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> instead of
>> fixing it, once for all. After 40 years (more than a generation).
> +1. this is really an important point. think of all the mega person
> years you could save by doing the simple, systemic things to make
> the job of maintaining system easier.
Think of all the mega person years in... picking one example... the
managed security services industry.
Mega *billable* person years...
Folks, as long as those who care about the integrity of the world's
information infrastructure work at the direction of those who do not,
nothing will get fixed.
--
Wes Kussmaul
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-06 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-05 3:38 sl
2014-12-05 9:50 ` David L. Craig
2014-12-06 0:08 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-12-06 5:22 ` lucio
2014-12-06 18:29 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-12-06 18:41 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-06 20:56 ` Wes Kussmaul [this message]
2014-12-07 4:23 ` lucio
2014-12-07 7:31 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-07 2:37 ` Bruce Ellis
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2014-12-03 23:49 Stéphane Aulery
2014-12-05 2:33 ` [9fans] " Charles Forsyth
2014-12-05 3:08 ` Bruce Ellis
2014-12-05 3:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-12-05 4:14 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-06 1:58 ` Bruce Ellis
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