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Re: [Full-Disclosure] New Security News Website



--On Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:50 AM -0600 Ron DuFresne <dufresne@winternet.com> wrote:

The other point being made is that this system is already going to attract a significant ammount of attention. Open ports. whther proxied to some sense of security or not, is going to attract a tad bit more attnetion in and of itself. That and the fact that mailing list software tends to present it's own set of administrative issues, with which errors are easy to surface and likely be exploited. Added services only hieghten the potential. There is the possibility this system might well attract more attention then was assumed/wanted/warranted.

And then there's the other possibility. That the OP knows *exactly* what he/she is doing, and all the posting about the "security problems" with the site just make us look like foo^H^H^Hnevermind.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu

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