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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25
Date: 23 Mar 2003 23:05:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1048460728.10712.85.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87of41ah7y.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>

On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 21:46, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Anyway, the current way security issues are handled will last a year,
> maybe two.  I'm not sure in which direction it will evolve, either far
> more anarchistic (unlikely), or completely regulated (very likely, I
> smell a lot of money down that road).

Some people would certainly like it that way, and there is certainly 
pressure from some governments to try and hide and censor security
information. 

The slight problem (in fact nonproblem is that most security hole
finders will simply not deal with such people). Vendor-sec gets a
measurable number of reports that specifically forbid their
redistribution to cert for example


  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-23 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]       ` <20030323200029$737b@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <20030323202005$2a74@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-23 20:33           ` Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25 Florian Weimer
2003-03-23 22:24             ` Alan Cox
2003-03-23 21:46               ` Florian Weimer
2003-03-23 23:05                 ` Alan Cox [this message]
     [not found]       ` <20030323200023$1a65@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <20030323202014$096a@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-23 20:35           ` Florian Weimer
2003-03-23 20:59             ` Robert Love
2003-03-27 14:47 Dr. Greg Wettstein
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-23 22:38 Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-23 22:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-23 23:06   ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-24 10:30     ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-03-24 10:43       ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-24 15:40       ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-24 16:55         ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-03-19 20:09 Matthew Grant
2003-03-19 21:34 ` Matthew Grant
2003-03-19 11:28 mlafon
     [not found] <20030317161020$42ed@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-17 18:39 ` Ben Pfaff
2003-03-18  1:46   ` Alan Cox
2003-03-17 16:04 Alan Cox
2003-03-17 17:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-03-17 18:20   ` Tomas Szepe
2003-03-17 18:23     ` James Bourne
2003-03-17 18:27     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-21 21:17       ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-23 10:00         ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-03-23 13:41           ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-23 15:58             ` Petr Baudis
2003-03-23 19:25             ` Martin Mares
2003-03-23 19:30               ` Alan Cox
2003-03-23 19:34                 ` Martin Mares
2003-03-23 19:38                   ` Alan Cox
2003-03-23 19:44                     ` Martin Mares
2003-03-23 19:47                       ` Robert Love
2003-03-23 19:55                         ` Henrik Persson
2003-03-23 20:13                           ` Robert Love
2003-03-23 20:46                           ` Henrik Persson
2003-03-23 19:56                         ` Martin Mares
2003-03-23 20:08                           ` Russell King
2003-03-23 22:26                             ` Alan Cox
2003-03-23 20:10                           ` Robert Love
2003-03-23 20:30                             ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-23 20:36                               ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-23 21:20                                 ` Martin Hermanowski
2003-03-23 21:35                                 ` James Bourne
2003-03-23 21:53                                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-23 22:21                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-23 22:29                                       ` James Bourne
2003-03-23 22:57                                         ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-24  0:15                                           ` James Bourne
2003-03-23 22:43                                       ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-23 22:54                                       ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-23 23:19                                         ` Alan Cox
2003-03-23 23:34                                           ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-24  3:35                                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-03-24  3:54                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-03-24  6:56                                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-24 12:17                                             ` Alan Cox
2003-03-23 23:34                                         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-23 23:45                                           ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-24  0:07                                             ` J.A. Magallon
2003-03-24  6:52                                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-24  0:09                                             ` Christian Axelsson
2003-03-24 20:05                                         ` aradorlinux
2003-03-23 20:38                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-03-23 20:51                                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-24  0:51                                   ` Juan Quintela
2003-03-24  1:29                                     ` Brian Tinsley
2003-03-23 20:54                               ` Robert Love
2003-03-23 22:13                                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-23 21:51                               ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-23 21:59                                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-23 22:14                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-23 22:46                                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-25 11:35                               ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-03-25 11:36                               ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-03-23 20:09                         ` Tomas Szepe
2003-03-23 20:21                           ` Robert Love
2003-03-23 20:49                           ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-23 22:22                             ` Alan Cox
2003-03-23 21:56                       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-23 21:59                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-03-24 15:33                       ` jlnance
2003-03-23 19:53                     ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-24  0:08                       ` Sven Schuster
2003-03-24  0:20                         ` James Bourne
2003-03-24  0:37                           ` Sven Schuster
2003-03-24  0:50                             ` James Bourne
2003-03-24  0:39                           ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-24  2:54                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-24  2:57                               ` James Bourne
2003-03-24  2:59                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-24 14:42                               ` Dave Jones
2003-03-27  7:47                                 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-26 20:30                                   ` Dave Jones
2003-03-26 20:41                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-26 21:02                                       ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-27  5:20                                       ` James Bourne
2003-03-23 19:41                   ` Tomas Szepe
2003-03-17 19:34     ` Alan Cox
2003-03-17 18:27       ` Tomas Szepe
2003-03-17 19:23         ` Neale Banks
2003-03-18 18:44           ` James Bourne

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