RE: AW: [Full-Disclosure] no more public exploits

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> From: full-disclosure-admin@lists.netsys.com [mailto:full-disclosure-
> admin@lists.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Bernard J. Duffy
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 3:38 PM
> To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
> Subject: Re: AW: [Full-Disclosure] no more public exploits

[Soderland, Craig] Much Stuff filtered. 

> I would venture to guess that you would not be a happy camper if the
> IT organization supporting the systems that process your payroll or
> banking applied code fixes without a robust testing procedure.

[Soderland, Craig] I'd be even less happy if my banking institution, or payroll 
department got hacked. A delay in getting to my accounts I can live with, and 
complete cleaning out I cannot. 

The long and short of it is, you can patch, and break something, however if you 
go that route you can also back it out. 

You can not patch, and be at someone else's mercy and perhaps not know what 
they have done or how to fix short of a rebuild. 

Me, well I prefer to maintain the illusion of being the master of my own 
destiny. 

Besides I've seen the time and effort required, if you do get hit, as opposed 
to the time and effort required to patch. I'll take the easy way out and patch. 

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