From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <54836D78.4060809@ReliableID.com> Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 15:56:24 -0500 From: Wes Kussmaul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@9fans.net References: <808ad70d8182ed0f98a57281445d60f3@proxima.alt.za> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Debian bug 737206 - rc shell uses insecurely /tmp Topicbox-Message-UUID: 355f38ba-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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=20 managed security services industry. Mega *billable* person years... Folks, as long as those who care about the integrity of the world's=20 information infrastructure work at the direction of those who do not,=20 nothing will get fixed. --=20 Wes Kussmaul The Authenticity Institute 738 Main Street Waltham, MA 02451 office +1 781 790 1674 mobile +1 781 330 1881 =93Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people collectively calli= ng themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it=92s the same as if a per= son named Arthur Andersen signed it.=94 - The Serpent