[N3WBI3]

I have not seen a box that uses elm in quite some time (1995 I think) and any sysdamin who has permissions setup so people can install mplayer needs a big smack in the head with a huge foam LART but still for home users and people that for some reason still use a mail client older than windows95 get your systems patched..

[N3WBI3]

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[frogjerk]

I have not seen a box that uses elm in quite some time (1995 I think)

I was going to say the same thing. Who in the hell uses ELM?

In other news, a new security hole was found in DOS 4.0. with hard disk partitions over 32 MB.

[general_re]

Yeah, nobody uses it now, but it was widely used for what, almost 15 years, with the sources readily available. So where's the "many eyes/shallow bugs" theory now?

Although it's hardly a serious problem now, this really goes to confirm my suspicion that the security benefits of open-source software are in many cases - not all, but many - largely theoretical. I think the reality is that, in most cases, very few people beyond the actual author bother to read/audit the code for the open-source software they use.

[softwarecreator]

Linux/Unix e-mail flaw leaves system wide open

Can't be true, according to the zeolots Linux has no security flaws!

Hahaha ... I'm kidding of course, couldn't resist.  =)

Thanks for the alert.  Luckily I don't use Linux for my eMail.