Re: Distributing Patches in Email (was: RE: EZ Shopper 3.0 shopping cart CGI remote command execution)

> As someone who works for a vendor that does distribute product
> updates via email, I feel that I need to respond. An exception the
> rule Marc mentions should be non-executable, strongly signed updates.

Not good enough - it's too easy for someone to save an old update, then
much later, after bugs are known in it, forge mail from you including
the "update", thereby reintroducing known bugs into the customer's
system.

                                        der Mouse

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Received on Mar 06 2000