Comments on: Debian Linux ‘Major security flaw’ http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16079 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:43:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16079/comment-page-1#comment-498704 Reader's Write Fri, 30 May 2008 03:17:40 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16079#comment-498704 old, very old... old, very old…

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16079/comment-page-1#comment-498188 Reader's Write Thu, 29 May 2008 21:19:25 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16079#comment-498188 This happens several times a week with microsoft/apple (and they take longer to relese patches) But it dose highlight why you should not use automated code security tools which fixed the code by removing randomness when it was actually needed. It also shows that you should pass code patches up the chain as this would have caught the problem and after the real ssl team had a good lol moment seeing this patch they would have told the author of this patch why. This happens several times a week with microsoft/apple (and they take longer to relese patches)

But it dose highlight why you should not use automated code security tools which fixed the code by removing randomness when it was actually needed.

It also shows that you should pass code patches up the chain as this would have caught the problem and after the real ssl team had a good lol moment seeing this patch they would have told the author of this patch why.

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