full-disclosure - Support the Sasser-author fund started

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

From: lists at g-clef.net (Aaron Gee-Clough)
Subject: Support the Sasser-author fund started

Duquette, John wrote:
> Why not punish all the admins/users who failed to patch their systems in
> time as well.  

Because they didn't break the law.  It's really that simple.  If you're 
saying that you think there should be a law to force people to patch 
their systems in a timely manner, that's a different issue.  (and one 
that will lead to all sorts of unintended problems...think about it for 
a while.)

Aaron