Proposal

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bris.ac.uk
Thu Apr 10 06:39:30 UTC 2014


>Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 23:28:29 +0100
>From: Joe Holden <lists at rewt.org.uk>
>To: freebsd-security at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Proposal
>
>The problem here is that a workaround wasn't communicated and I suspect 
>a very small number of religous users actually sub to security@

I do read it.

> - also 
>bare in mmind that the website wasn't updated until a number of hours 
>after, including rss which I suspect most people use.

I don't use rss

>I am not trying to undermine the required testing here, but a simple 
>binary patch via freebsd-update to disable heartbeats would have done in 
>the interim (who even uses them, or knows about them).

not for me. I much prefer a verified
security advisory.

Anton



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