Subj : Re: Blaster's action date
To   : Todd Sullivan
From : Rene Laederach
Date : Tue Aug 26 2003 20:33:28

Todd Sullivan wrote to Rene Laederach:
TS>  RL> Not a whole lot, except that Amigas aren't impacted. :)
TS> 
TS> Hmm.  I guess there wasn't as much to worry about as one might have
TS> thought, or too many of us have watched the movie /Hackers/.

True, somehow. What I've been asking myself is how many Amigas with old 
ixemul
stuff running (like Apache) are threatened by all these security bugs as that
software will never get updated, and quite some will continue to run, like
we have the problem with lots of legacy unix systems.

I vividly remember I was on Amiga Apache 1.3.12 or .14 running until the end 
of
last year. Now I'm running on a rather current 2.0.40 with backported 
security
patches. At least with the newer Amigas, we should be able to use Linux
versions of popular software (except YAM....it's a bit annoying as I didn't
dislike this software).
        


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