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Falling Apart at the Seams
Kathleen Ellis and Jon Lasser, SecurityFocus 2000-09-04

Last month's Brown Orifice program opened a backdoor to an insecure future. Can open source save the day?

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User: friend or enemy? 2000-09-05
Pavel Roskin (1 replies)
User: friend or enemy? 2000-09-08
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Open Source Solution 2000-09-05
Pete Kofod (2 replies)
Re: Open Source Solution 2000-09-08
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Re: Open Source Solution 2000-09-08
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Open Source Solution 2000-09-08
Mike Crist
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Your friendly neighborhood software developer
Brown Orifice bug not in Open Source! 2000-09-08
/dev/joe
Keep in mind that the bugs exploited by Brown Orifice occur in the Java-handling code, the part of Netscape 4's source code that was NOT made open.

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