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What can we do as a Free Software community to take this opportunity to offer the many fine alternatives? I would expect a full-court press from the likes of RedHat, IBM and Novell, but it seems to me that the press in general has yet to become aquainted with the viability of Debian/RedHat/Suse/Knoppix/whatever as a way to get off this never-ending train wreck called Microsoft. I would urge all of us to take a very professional position that (insert your favorite solution) is a great way to instill a higher level of security and freedom into personal and business computing environments. The real key here is how long it took Microsoft to respond to this critical threat (leaving customers out to dry for six months) while security issues in the Free Software world are fixed by a world-wide team of developers, often literally overnight. If you have press contacts, or business contacts, or a website, you may want to take a moment to advocate for Free Software in the face of this security debacle. As a society, we can't afford to have our electric utilities, government and business systems at risk of these persistent perils that are inherent in proprietary software. - Greg David Kramer wrote: >From /. > >Posted by michael on Tuesday February 10, @04:13PM >from the you've-already-been-hacked dept. >pmf writes "Yet another critical vulnerability affecting Windows 2000/XP/2003 >has been just announced by eEye. It is worthy to note, that it took Microsoft >over 6 months to fix it. The bug affects ASN.1 library and is remotely >exploitable through authentication subsystems (Kerberos, NTLMv2) and >applications that make use of SSL certificates." The AP has an overview. > >http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20040210.html >http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-007.asp >http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040210/D80KJ01G1.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >DDDD David Kramer david at thekramers.net http://thekramers.net >DK KD One last warning: don't believe anything that you read in this >DKK D document. Every effort has been made to ensure that this document >DK KD is incomplete and inaccurate, and I take no responsibility for an >DDDD glimmers of correct information that may, by some fluke, be here. > UW_IMAP documentation >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >Discuss at blu.org >http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > -- FREePHILE We are 'Open' for Business Free and Open Source Software http://www.freephile.com (978) 270-2425 Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. -- Christopher Lascl
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