full-disclosure - Re: what we REALLY learned from WMF

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Message-ID: <dpm22r$4sr$1@sea.gmane.org>
Date: Fri Jan  6 20:05:30 2006
From: davek_throwaway at hotmail.com (Dave Korn)
Subject: Re: what we REALLY learned from WMF

Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote in 
news:43BDB4B5.1060906@...bell.net
> Don't release a beta patch ....
>
> 1. it would get patches into reverse engineering faster [hello look what
> happened to the leaked patch]

  That would only matter for issues where there weren't already dozens of 
public sploits, it's a complete irrelevancy in this particular case.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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