On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:00:23AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 08:19:24PM +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: > >In other words, people are ready to pounce, and that short gap of time > >after server installation and before installing patched code cannot be > >considered "safe". Quite the opposite. > > Note that if you're doing a network install you can point to > security.d.o and never have any vulnerable network services installed on > the machine.
Let's rather say "never have any network services with known vulnerabilities installed although an upgrade already is available". But, well, that is already a little off topic. Horst -- Wenn Dein einziges Werkzeug ein Hammer ist, sieht jedes Problem aus wie ein Nagel