On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, John Richard Moser wrote:
> Thus, by having fewer exploits available, fewer successful attacks > should happen due to the laws of probability. So the goal becomes to > fix as many bugs as possible, but also to mitigate the ones we don't > know about. To truly mitigate any security flaw, we must make a > non-circumventable protection. To the extent that this means "if you see a bug, fix the bug, even if it's unrelated" I agree completely. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
