Re: TO HELL WITH IT THEN......(re: disk-destroyer.c)

From: David Ford (david@kalifornia.com)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 19:50:49 EST


Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> No, their hardware will be fried even when they do have the patched
> kernel. That's the whole point.

Yes, people will get fried, -but- if there's a fix available, less people will get
fried because the script kiddie doesn't know how to work around the fix or the
script kiddie got a brain from k-mart.

We all know there isn't a 100% fix here, but we would like a 75% fix instead of a
0% fix.

-d

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'committed'."


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