full-disclosure - Re: Removing FIred admins

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From: gadgeteer at elegantinnovations.org (gadgeteer@...gantinnovations.org)
Subject: Re: Removing FIred admins

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:29:25AM -0500, James Patterson Wicks (pwicks@...gen.com) wrote:
> "The Button"

Impressive.  Upperscase letters to start off each word.  Quotes to set it 
apart from the rest of the sentence it appears in.

> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Cael Abal
>   Imagine every sneaky thing a cracker
> could do -- subvert your IDS, implement Ken Thompson-esque
> login/compiler bugs, etc... And then consider that they might've
> happened any time in the past few years and have by now completely
> infiltrated your backup media.

Maybe it is the length of this comma separated value listing that caused 
your eyes to glaze over.  Let us examime one of these items.  For the 
sake of history (which so many seem to scorn), for its elegance, and 
to honor the inventor of the original UNIX kernel...

http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/

Then contemplate on the futility of effort being expended on "The Button".
-- 
Chief Gadgeteer
Elegant Innovations