* Dave McKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000320 14:18] wrote:
> Is it really necessary to post the ports security advisories?
> The exploitable programs are not part of the FreeBSD OS, they
> are third party software. I think the proper place for these
> is the Bugtraq mailing list on securityfocus.com. Also to add
> to the arguments, most of the advisories are not FreeBSD
> specific.
I don't agree, I monitor FreeBSD boxes almost exclusively and
find that the recent additional advisories take less time to
go through and since they are freebsd specific they help the
average FreeBSD-joe upgrade with FreeBSD specific instructions.
Also, considering the recent bugtraq postings about problems with
FreeBSD ports when it was a 3rd party application... I think that
it's a wise PR move.
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