Karl Strickland wrote: Bela> This is ridiculous. You'd decline to install a security patch because Bela> you think not enough hackers know about the hole? Karl> One important point is, if you dont know what the hole is, you cant be Karl> sure its fixed. Some people are more reluctant to take these things Karl> on trust, after seeing what happened with Sun's binmail patches. If the reader believes that the holes originally exist as stated and that SCO has made a good faith effort to fix them, it is sensible to install the fixes even if it eventually turns out that a narrower hole remains. It's analogous to a terminal cancer patient being told that he can try a promising but untested new drug -- except in this case it's cured all the lab rats, so the doctor has very high hopes for the drug. I suppose some readers could think the whole thing was an elaborate collaborative hoax between 8LGM and SCO to *introduce* Trojan horses... I can't help anyone who is that paranoid. >Bela<