Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine

From: Kragen (kragenat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 28 1998 - 13:46:04 PDT

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    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
    



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