On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 11:02:20PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:42:07AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > this same empirical evidence has also proved that 'stable' is LESS > > stable and reliable and secure than 'unstable'. the few debian boxes > > which i know of that have been compromised were cracked BECAUSE they > > were still running stable and had older versions of various programs > > which had known security holes. > > Uh, which were the packages in question? Did you report it at the time?
And were they keeping up with packages on security.debian.org meant specifically for the stable release? -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'