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Lucian Pintilie writes: |
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> You keep talking about 1.5 years and a simple measure you |
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> know for correcting the problem. That doesn't put you in |
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> a good position either [...] |
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Yes, you are right. And it's even worse: Not only did I |
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completely fail to realize this is a problem, I even got |
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paid as a _security consultant_ to help setting up secure |
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servers. And I recommended Gentoo. And took money for it. |
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And for all we know, these servers belong to the NSA by now. |
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Which means that I have totally fucked up the job my clients |
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trusted me to do and when the details of this problem reach |
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the consciousness of the "general public", there will be |
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questions asked and I will look like an idiot to my clients, |
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not like a hero who "blew the whistle". Because they |
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couldn't care less about technical details, they only care |
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about security. |
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Note, however, that I spoke up and raised all hell the |
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_minute_ I learned about this problem. Perhaps those people |
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who are questioning my motivations and my integrity as a |
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human being should consider that before judging what I am |
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trying to do here. |
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And while I am at it, I'd also like to point out that those |
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people who have said that this latest revival of the thread |
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was a pointless waste of time that only served to annoy |
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people and didn't help matters at all ... were right, too. |
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Because several _hours_ before I started the latest little |
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flame fest here on the list, Kurt had already sent me an |
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e-mail and explained what he thought would be best to do and |
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ask whether I would help. For some weird chance, though, my |
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spam filter decided that this would be a good time to |
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produce the first false-positive in MONTHS and sorted the |
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e-mail into the spam folder, not into my regular mailbox. So |
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I didn't see it and all the while Kurt was waiting for me to |
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reply to him, I was posting and posting on this list |
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shouting and screaming why nothing was being done. |
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Rather cool, isn't it? |
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And now check this out: No matter how much I feel this was |
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not my fault, no matter how much I believe it was an honest |
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mistake that I couldn't have prevented, it won't change the |
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fact that I fucked up again and uselessly wasted bandwidth, |
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people's time, and did not help matters at all because the |
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answer to all questions was readily waiting in my mailbox |
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already. |
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I admit it, I regret it, and I apologize. |
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Peter |
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