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From:Paul Hill
Date:22 Sep 2000 at 10:18:06
Subject:Re: ISPs

> On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 08:33:39PM +0000, Paul Hill wrote:
>
> > RH 5.1 isn't that old!
>
> 5.2 was around about 2 years ago, so 5.1 must be about the same age.

2
> years is a pretty long time - there's huge numbers of security holes

in
> 5.1. They'll be harder to exploit given that the code needed would be

> different on an M68k machine, but connecting a Red Hat 5.1 based
system to
> the internet in any way is not a smart thing to do.

Well in that case connecting an Amiga to the internet isn't a smart
thing to do.



Paul

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