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How not to respond to a security advisory
Jason Miller, 2006-01-18

A recently announced weakness in the BSD securelevel system isn't going to be fixed in OpenBSD. While securelevel may have problems, the vendor's security response is unacceptable and doesn't fit with their stated goals.

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What total nonsense. 2006-01-19
Anonymous
The securelevel system is not broken, there is nothing to fix. Does the securelevel manpage say it prevents mounting? No, so why would you think its broken because it allows mounting? This whole "vulnerability" is just a case of "lets make foolish assuptions"....

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