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Message-ID: <a0521066cbab9e1dc1066@[10.0.1.2]>
From: brad.knowles at skynet.be (Brad Knowles)
Subject: MCAFEE E-MAIL SCAN ALERT!~FWD:
INTERNET S
At 2:06 PM +1300 2003/04/09, Nick FitzGerald wrote:
> What he, and several others of us, said makes you stupid is that you
> _forwarded the whole message when you suspected the attachment was a
> virus or something similar_.
For the moment, let's assume that this was a result from a new
virus, Trojan Horse, or hoax that had not previously been encountered.
Now, this list is called "full-disclosure". How are we to
intelligently discuss some subject, if we don't have a complete copy
of the thing that it is that we are supposed to be discussing?
> Your inability to accept that that was extremely stupid is seen as
> quite reasonably reinforcing that belief.
I had thought that this was the list where all the real security
experts went, after BugTraq started taking a more intrusive editorial
stance.
I had thought that we'd have people on this list that have
sufficiently armored themselves against attack that we wouldn't have
things like "virus detected" warnings being posted via automated
programs.
I had thought that we could have a reasonable discussion, and
that if there was something I had missed, people would provide me
with a pointer to the appropriate information source, without the
infantile need to resort to name-calling.
A number of people were, indeed, kind enough to provide links to
the virus description web pages (ones that I had searched for but
obviously missed), and I greatly appreciate the speed of their
response.
Are you, and others, now going to make me regret that this is the
place where I thought that a free and open discussion was actually
possible?
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@...net.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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