From: cosmos@yabbs
To: DrClaw@yabbs
Subject: re: internet breakings
Date: Mon Feb  7 06:04:36 1994

CERT??  Pfft.

Once again the mentally challenged CERT team has whipped up frenzy among 
net users and terrified sysadmins everywhere with their latest *warning*.  
Basically, it's PANIX reborn.  Like usual, the warning is "hey everyone 
there are nast uebercrackers using the same bugs that were used before 
that we never bothered to tell you how to fix--just warning you again 
folks!"

For the admin that has plenty of time and resources this problem was fixed 
at their own hands before.  But not all admins have plenty of time or 
expertise to patch source code and to fix all the holes that CERT wont 
tell them how to fix.  Some poor admin running10 machines and half of a 
university computer science department isnt going to have the resources to 
do this.

pity.

Cosmos