Usenet Security

[Rob Robertson]

In article <15477 at pyramid.pyramid.com> csg at pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
>The security features of BNU/HDB are *THE* selling point, in my opinion. The
>4.3BSD UUCP is nearly the equal of HDB in many repects, and the newest version
>will be superior in many. But when it comes to security, HDB reigns surpreme
>and will for the forseeable future. Any site that plans to use UUCP and wants
>to be secure should be running HDB. 

older versions of HDB have a hole whereby clever hackers CAN manage to
get a shell.

honest

rob
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				william robertson
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