Re: [gentoo-user] [OT/rant] Self-replicating programmer stupidity

2011-06-24 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/23/2011 07:52 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: Programming secure software is not the easiest task to master. It takes a lot of planning and enough knowledge about the components you're using to know exactly how they all work together, as well as how they are not supposed to be used. In many

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT/rant] Self-replicating programmer stupidity

2011-06-24 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/24/11, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: My question: WTF uses these poorly written ftp servers? Why do they exist? Who asked for them? Who wrote the code, and why? Maybe they're all derivatives of a single codebase with lots of bugs and a MIT/BSD/Apache-style license? -- Arttu V.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT/rant] Self-replicating programmer stupidity

2011-06-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:54 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: My question:  WTF uses these poorly written ftp servers?  Why do they exist?  Who asked for them?  Who wrote the code, and why? My tentative guess: either evil programmers, or incompetent programmers. (I suspect the intersection of

[gentoo-user] [OT/rant] Self-replicating programmer stupidity

2011-06-23 Thread walt
I've been reading the monthly security bulletin from sans.org for several years. During that time I've noticed some recurring themes, including multiple appearances from Adobe products like Flash. Another recurring theme is ftp servers (of which there are dozens) like this month's report:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT/rant] Self-replicating programmer stupidity

2011-06-23 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 06/23/11 19:54, walt wrote: I've been reading the monthly security bulletin from sans.org for several years. During that time I've noticed some recurring themes, including multiple appearances from Adobe products like Flash. Another recurring theme is ftp servers (of which there are