>> I'll grant that I can be annoying and dull. <<
Yep! Doh! ;o)
Rey..
Team Allaire
Quest Technologies....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Watts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 2:26 PM
Subject: RE: The +.htr bug strikes again
> > I for one appreciate the heads up, not everyone considers
> > people on this list to be script kiddies !! we are all
> > developers here and we don't need mr Watts to baby sit us.
>
> You can call me Dave.
>
> I'm not trying to protect you from yourself, nor am I interested in
> babysitting you. I don't give a rat's ass about you, personally, one way
or
> the other. Merry Chrismas to you, though, and say hi to Bill Wheatley for
> me; he seems like a nice enough guy.
>
> This thread started with someone posting that someone else's site, in
> particular, had a security hole. How does that give you a heads-up? What
> information does that give you that you couldn't get from reading about
the
> vulnerability (use of .htr extensions on IIS)?
>
> Here's an analogy for you. Let's say that I figure out that a generic key
> can open all locks from a particular vendor, and I announce that to the
> world. Hopefully, I'd notify the vendor first, but shortly after that,
> everybody else should know too, so that if they have one of these crappy
> locks on their front door, they can fix it or switch to another lock.
That's
> good disclosure. On the other hand, if I say that Mike C. has one of these
> locks on his front door, and he lives at 555 Dumbass Lane, that's not good
> disclosure, is it? You don't have to look at everything like a lawyer to
see
> the difference, do you?
>
> > on the topic of script kiddies, there is another side to
> > that, there is the annoying older internet worker who looks
> > at everything like a lawyer and put disclaimers on everything
> > and want to protect us from ourselves. Gimme the script
> > kiddies anyday, script kiddies grow up to be internet workers
> > and innovators, annoying legally minded (old )programmers are
> > just plain dull
>
> As far as being an "older" internet worker, how old do you think I am? I'm
> kind of curious. I'll grant that I can be annoying and dull.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
> voice: (202) 797-5496
> fax: (202) 797-5444
>
>
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