On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:28:28PM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:51:50PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:06:44PM +0800, Isaac To wrote: > > >> rather far from changing anything in the kernel memory. Andreas is > > >> definitely right that the hole doesn't look like that it is that > > >> dangerous. > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > If it wasn't a big deal we wouldn't be talking about it. It shut down > > > servers. It's dangerous enough. > > > > > Note the "looks like". > > I read all the words but took a completely different meaning :-) > I'm from the South, we have different speech patterns...
South of where? > "the hole doesn't look like that it is that dangerous" > means something different than > the hole doesn't look like that it is dangerous" > in my ears ... > > "that" is diminuitve in my dialect if you don't put emphasis on it :-) As far as security goes, we have to take 'dangerous' to mean exactly that, diminutive or not. But if it didn't look like a vulnerability then we can't blame anyone for missing it. -- --- Geoff Richards -------------><-------------- http://ungwe.org/ --- "I tried to fling my shadow at the moon, The while my blood leapt with a wordless song." -- Theodore Roethke
