Re: [OCLUG] Ten least secure programs

Are we talking about services and protocols too, now? For more often insecure services like RPC, NFS, etc., some of the programs do serve their purpose and work properly. I personally consider an insecure program, an insecure program--not the protocol it uses or the service itself. E.g., the program has exploits beyond the limits of it's intended purpose. If I create a program to rm -rf / your system and you run it, is that program insecure? It serves it's purpose, but if I create a program that says system("echo $input"); and claim it's an interactive "hello world" type of program, then that would qualify as insecure.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitchell Rowton" 
To: "Andre Hall" ; "Chris Berry"
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Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [OCLUG] Ten least secure programs

> I would tend to suggest the following:


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