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Bugtraq archives for 3rd quarter (Jul-Sep) 1998: Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine

Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine

Kragen (kragenPOBOX.COM)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:46:04 -0400 

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Peter W wrote:
> I'd even venture
> to say MANY of us would rather have a benign cracker gain root and not
> misuse it than have the system rendered inoperable.

*I'd* certainly rather have a benign cracker crack root and not abuse
it -- I don't mind that at all, whereas DoSes range from being annoying
to being disastrous.  They also happen to be really easy, unfortunately.

> I'd prefer that bugtraq continue to publish reports on
> DoS and crashing vulnerabilities.

As would I.

Kragen