To whom it may concern on the list,

Shut the fuck up, you bunch of belligerent, whiney dorks. No one gives a
rat's ass if you get hacked. Actually, I spoke too soon, someone must care,
since *someone* already told you to fucking upgrade. Someone call the
goddam Guinness Book, we've assembled the largest group of crybabies in
history. And the absolutely stunning thing is that after I post this, the
bitching will grow. Hypocrisy > *

To upgrade or not to upgrade, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of script kiddies,
Or to take arms against a sea of hostile dorks,
And by opposing end them? To reboot: to shutdown;
No more

-a little slice of reality

p.s. Chris, this was not a post directed at you in particular.

Chris Doherty (chris-freebsdrandomcamel.net) wrote:
> At some point, Theo de Raadt said:
> > I've barely slept in a week.
>
> get some rest.
>
> > So many of you are being totally unreasonable people.
>
> well.
>
> "Upgrade now."
>
> "What versions are vulnerable?"
>
> "Upgrade now."
>
> "*sigh* Okay, I'll upgrade my 40 production machines."
>
> "Okay, the version in -stable is unaffected. Oh yeah, and even if you're
> running a vulnerable version, set 'ChallengeResponseAuthentication no' and
> you'll be fine."
>
> people aren't being unreasonable. they just wasted a lot of time upgrading
> to a new version of software, when in reality probably 95% of cases are
> either not vulnerable or can be secured with a simple configuration file
> change (I made that number up, of course, but at least on this list it
> doesn't seem out of proportion).
>
> for myself with my one machine, I'm just annoyed. if I had gone through
> this bullshit on 40 machines, when I could have just modified a config
> file, I'd be pissed, and rightfully so.
>
> but, *shrug*. I'll not give such credence to vague warnings in the
> future--lesson learned.
>
> Chris
>
>
> -------------------------------
> Chris Doherty
> chris [at] randomcamel.net
>
> "I think," said Christopher Robin, "that we ought to eat
> all our provisions now, so we won't have so much to carry."
> -- A. A. Milne
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