After takin' a swig o' grog, Mart van de Wege belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> "amicus_curious" <[email protected]> writes: > >> Even so how likely is it that the target of this exploit is savvy >> enough to have combed through the source and implemented his own fix >> enable by knowing which library version of BusyBox was in use in his >> $25 router? It would be more probable that he would win the >> Powerball Lottery twice in a row. >> > You're excluding the middle. Between not knowing anything and hacking > the firmware yourself is the possibility that knowing the exact > version numbers of the component parts gives the owner the possibility > to determine how vulnerable they are, and to take steps, ranging from > taking in the router to the reseller to have it serviced, or patching > it themselves, and everything in between. > > Then again, you really don't think these things through, now do you? > Your every effort in this thread screams intellectual laziness, if not > outright stupidity. Unfortunately, that covers an awful lot of computer users. -- People disagree with me. I just ignore them. -- Linus Torvalds, regarding the use of C++ for the Linux kernel _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
