Wednesday, March 01, 2000, 3:17:44 PM, Simon wrote:
> what happens next? Does it get ignored? Does everyone shout "ahh, its
> a stupid lamer creating more bogus alerts"? Some will, but eventually
However, before I made that determination about this case I /DID/ check
bugtraq and found discussion on it dismissing what it did. I also posted that
on here as a URL for all to look at. I then also downloaded it and installed
it to see what it does, how it presents itself and how it works in a general
sense.
Joe-blow on Angelfire was reposting what someone else had said, cited a
source I had never even heard of before and clearly hadn't done any
investigation of his own. Further, when it was posted here it was with a
reference to joe-blow on angelfire and, again, with no investigation on the
part of the poster.
So, let's compare:
1: Some schmuck who doesn't know how computer works and clearly can barely
code in a markup language and citing someone else who, themselves, isn't worth
mentioning in the field of security is cited to this list.
2: Bugtraq discussion basically blowing it off as part and parcel of what the
program does. Bugtraq being one of the top security-related lists on the net.
I dunno about you, but I'd side with BugTraq. I'll grant that sometimes
L0pht, BugTraq, CERT, SERT(sp?) and a few other organizations will not be the
first to report it. This is not the case here. When they do report it, which
is the case here, I'm more apt to go with them.
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