full-disclosure - Please don't feed the troll (was: Re: Is Marty Lying?)

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From: lists at onryou.com (Cael Abal)
Subject: Please don't feed the troll (was: Re: Is Marty
 Lying?)

>>> The "code audit" that you guys did to make sure nothing was backdoored was
>>> quite thorough too, considering since then remote bugs in Snort have been
>>> published.  If you can't even spot the vulnerable code you introduce into
>>> your source tree by accident, how can you definitively argue that no one
>>> else snuck in subtle bugs that you also didn't catch?
>>
>> I'm sure it would have been extraordinarily difficult to run 'diff' on
>> the codebase before the intrusion and the one after, to see if any of
>> the changes weren't accounted for.
> 
> For you, yes.

We all know how snot feels about IDS', and all agree he's absolutely, 
undeniably, wrong -- let's not waste any more bandwidth on it, shall we?

take care,

Cael