full-disclosure - RE: Yahoo Instant Messenger YAUTO.DLL buffer overflow

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From: jonathan at nuclearelephant.com (Jonathan A. Zdziarski)
Subject: RE: Yahoo Instant Messenger YAUTO.DLL 
	buffer overflow

> Sigh.  Spoken like a true teenager.  Study the history of the 1960s
> for even a few minutes and you'll realize that my generation
> blazed the trail for your idealism (yep, I'm a whole lot older
> than 20). While I don't expect you to listen, let me state
> here for the record that (hopefully) someday you'll understand
> that idealism must be tempered with pragmatism in order to be
> effective. Shouting "down with the establishment" is all well and
> good, but eventually, whether you like it or not, you'll
> become that very establishment.  Then *you'll* have to deal with
> people like you.  I hope I'm there to see it.

Well said.  Idealism alone breeds only socialism, and ultimately
communism.