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On quietly fixing security holes

On quietly fixing security holes

Posted Jul 31, 2003 1:53 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
Parent article: On quietly fixing security holes

Another kind of quiet fix I have seen was that the fix was put in for one reason and completely fixed another security related issue... Of course convincing paranoid people it was by accident is often impossible.


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