Re: vacation mail
It's not the first, and it won't be the last. Y'know, if I was a malicious individual I might lurk the Debian security mailing lists until I saw such an announcement, and then wait for a security vulnerability, for example [DSA 2998-1] to be posted thereafter. Deducing that the individual or their organisation ran Debian, I might then scan or probe the domain which issued to vacation mail to ascertain if they were vulnerable. Having all the information I needed to take advantage of the vulnerability in the DSA, I might then attack said individual or their organisation, safe in the knowledge that they would not be back in the office to deal with the problem until August 25th. Such vacation mails would make my job alot easier. IT is fortunate for the senders of such mails that I am not a malicious individual. Best regards, Daniel On 6 Aug 2014, at 09:49, Grond wrote: Bugger, but someone has *reeaally* poor manners. A vacation notice to a mailing list? I mean; really? I do *hope* that we will not be spammed by this until August 25th. (I realize that this rant may not meet minimum notability for this list.) On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 08:13:31PM +0200, programac...@sf-informatica.com wrote: Els missatges enviats a aquesta adreça de correu no s'atendran fins al 25 d'agost. Si us plau, si és urgent, posi's en contacte amb urgenc...@sf-informatica.com. Disculpi les molèsties. Los mensajes enviados a esta dirección de correo no se atenderán hasta el 25 de agosto. Por favor, si es urgente, póngase en contacto con urgenc...@sf-informatica.com. Disculpe las molestias. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140805181331.32e066041d...@11vs2.vspain.net -- Attached is my PGP public key. Primary key fingerprint: B7C7 AD66 D9AF 4348 0238 168E 2C53 D8FA 55D8 9FD9 If you have a PGP key (and a minute to spare) please send it in reply to this email. If you have no idea what PGP is, feel free to ignore all this gobbledegook. Mail Attachment -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/646a2551-a655-4620-b57f-46a5cbed4...@noflag.org.uk
Re: vacation mail
Ha, I think it's hilarious when people do this. Also stupid, but if it weren't for stupid people, who would we have to laugh at? :D On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 15:54 +0100, Daniel wrote: It's not the first, and it won't be the last. Y'know, if I was a malicious individual I might lurk the Debian security mailing lists until I saw such an announcement, and then wait for a security vulnerability, for example [DSA 2998-1] to be posted thereafter. Deducing that the individual or their organisation ran Debian, I might then scan or probe the domain which issued to vacation mail to ascertain if they were vulnerable. Having all the information I needed to take advantage of the vulnerability in the DSA, I might then attack said individual or their organisation, safe in the knowledge that they would not be back in the office to deal with the problem until August 25th. Such vacation mails would make my job alot easier. IT is fortunate for the senders of such mails that I am not a malicious individual. Best regards, Daniel On 6 Aug 2014, at 09:49, Grond wrote: Bugger, but someone has *reeaally* poor manners. A vacation notice to a mailing list? I mean; really? I do *hope* that we will not be spammed by this until August 25th. (I realize that this rant may not meet minimum notability for this list.) On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 08:13:31PM +0200, programac...@sf-informatica.com wrote: Els missatges enviats a aquesta adreça de correu no s'atendran fins al 25 d'agost. Si us plau, si és urgent, posi's en contacte amb urgenc...@sf-informatica.com. Disculpi les molèsties. Los mensajes enviados a esta dirección de correo no se atenderán hasta el 25 de agosto. Por favor, si es urgente, póngase en contacto con urgenc...@sf-informatica.com. Disculpe las molestias. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140805181331.32e066041d...@11vs2.vspain.net -- Attached is my PGP public key. Primary key fingerprint: B7C7 AD66 D9AF 4348 0238 168E 2C53 D8FA 55D8 9FD9 If you have a PGP key (and a minute to spare) please send it in reply to this email. If you have no idea what PGP is, feel free to ignore all this gobbledegook. Mail Attachment -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1407426504.2771.0.ca...@jfergusdeb.proofpoint.com
Re: vacation mail
Jason Fergus dijo [Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 09:48:24AM -0600]: Ha, I think it's hilarious when people do this. Also stupid, but if it weren't for stupid people, who would we have to laugh at? :D Right. And these messages bug us, true. But please, stop it. Debian project mailing lists are not the right place to laugh at people. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
