[clug] [OT] all text passwords == secure?

steve jenkin sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au
Tue Aug 28 18:36:18 MDT 2012


Sam Couter wrote on 29/08/12 12:23 AM:
> Did you know that pine and mutt have both been vulnerable to buffer
> overrun attacks of the remote-code-execution kind? 

No. was not aware...
Thanks very much - really excellent point.

Which I might paraphrase as "If you think you understand this problem,
you're mistaken"...

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