On 3/23/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sendmail is, as we know, the most used daemon for SMTP in the world. This > > is an International Infrastructure vulnerability and should have been > > treated that way. It wasn't. It was handled not only poorly, but > > irresponsibly. > > You would probably expect me to the be last person to say that Sendmail > is perfectly within their rights. I have had a lot of problems with > what they are doing.
I think people expect you to be as you are. > > But what did you pay for Sendmail? Was it a dollar, or was it more? Let > me guess. It was much less than a dollar. I bet you paid nothing. > > So does anyone owe you anything, let alone a particular process which > you demand with such length? > > Now, the same holds true with OpenSSH. I'll tell you what. If there > is ever a security problem (again :) in OpenSSH we will disclose it > exactly like we want, and in no other way, and quite frankly since > noone has ever paid a cent for it's development they have nothing they > can say about it. > > Dear non-paying user -- please remember your place. I seem to recall that DARPA funded a good bit of your work. I also seem to recall that I and many others funded DARPA. Kindly submit to the will of us all. > > Or run something else. > > OK? Or simply cut off funding. The game can be played both ways. > > Luckily within a few months you will be able to tell Sendmail how > to disclose their bugs because their next version is going to come > out with a much more commercial licence. Then you can pay for it, > and then you can complain too. > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > -- Purple Bag Society of the Crown _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
