On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm sure most have you have already seen or heard about the discovered
> > compiled in backdoor superuser account that was placed in Interbase by
> > the original developers. It was put in sometime between 1992 and 1994
> > and has been in every release of interbase. While it is unfortunate that
> > something like this exists, it is an excellent example of one of the
> > benefits of open source software.
> >
> > Link to the bulletin:
> > https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/247371
> >
> Hmm...don't you mean one of the drawbacks of NOT using Open-source software? :-)
> John
um, no, i think he got it right -- one of the *benefits* of open source
software. your double negative accomplishes the same thing, although more
obscurely, i might add.
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
Eno River Technologies, Durham NC
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