Flashes of Panic

As part of this security class, I’ve been assigned to follow a security listserver. I’ve subscribed to bugtraq for the first time. Most of it is relatively humdrum announcements of obscure vulnerabilities in even more obscure software (or so it seems to me) but suggestions of vulnerabilities (shortened on-list to “vulns”) or exploits for widely-used software (such as the ubiquitous Linksys four-port home routers) meets some pretty intense scrutiny.

This group doesn’t pull punches when it comes to stuff they don’t like, either. Here’s a signature file (and yes, I know posting this witticism is probably like posting the last joke your aunt mass-mailed you, but it proves my point):

Did you know that, if you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That’s nothing! If you play it forward, it will install Windows 2000!

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