At 08:42 AM 3/15/2001, Rich Payne wrote
I"m not trying to start a flame war - I'm wondering why they chose to try
to harden something that can't be hardened :-)
<DISCLAIMER>
I'm not trying to start a flame - we all have our favorites and opinions -
I am just expressing mine. so chill out - nobody said that sendmail was
bad and qmail was good (not in this email anyway)
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Its like sendmail - sure sendmail is great if you like to upgrade to the
newest version every five min. (read the above disclaimer)
I'm really wondering what the hell their thinking with wu-FTP? is there
something that i'm missing? they call it UNTESTED!?!? look at
securityfocus.com and search for wu-ftp. the results could choke a
horse!!! more sites have been owned using wu-FTP than my sister! :-)
thats it i'm done
~kurth
>On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Kurth Bemis wrote:
>
> > Anyone seen this? What a joke!
>
>So you've downloaded it, done a security audit on it and cracked/found
>problems with ?
>
> > Well for the Government i suppose that
> > this is the best that they can do with 1.2 billion-trillion tax
> dollars. I
> > mean if you want something secure use OpenBSD or MacOS!!!!!! anyway -
> check
> > it out
>
>If you want to start an OS flame war go elsewhere, USENET is usually a
>good place for that.
>
> > http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/download.html
> >
> > I like their use of wu-FTP as their "secure ftp server. :-)
>
>Notice how it says (Untested) after that, and again, until you've looked
>at the code and found problems I don't think you have much ground to stand
>on.
>
>Kindly save your arrogant flame baits for another list, I for one don't
>have time for it.
>
>--rdp
>
> > ~kurth
> >
> >
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