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Originally posted by Ranzid
It only affect "Sendmail" that runs mainly on Unix/Linux system. It shouldn't affect most of us.
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Sorry to sound offensive, but that's retarded.
About 60% of the internet runs off UNIX-based servers, including a great many of ISP's SMTP servers - including possibly yours. It's a big and potentially dangerous vulnerability. Just because you're not using a potentially dangerous piece of software doesn't mean you can't fall victim to it's shortcomings.
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Originally posted by The Strangler
What I find funny is that a news organization would be so unethical as to release this information before the problem is fixed.
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Quite an insightful post.
Others may disagree with me, but Sendmail is one of the primo facto UNIX apps which keeps your email running.
MSNBC is owned by Microsoft.
Do the maths.
I won't even mention my snorts of hypocrisy when MS mouths off at some "unethical" news source who tell the public about a critical MS vuln six months after the details have been reported trying to get MS to do something about it.