Security? [Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.]

Da Rock freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au
Fri Feb 24 14:21:48 UTC 2012


On 02/24/12 20:42, Dave wrote:
> On 24 Feb 2012 at 17:28, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Friday 24 February 2012 17:10:21 Dave wrote:
>>> Can I please request, you all check your mail client "reply to"
>>> settings.
>> I think, some - like me too - reply here always to all.
>>> Many of the "replies" to this thread, have also been sent to the 388
>>> (was it) addresses in the original To: field, as well as the list.
>> Wasn't it 389?
> 	:-)
>
>>> Might the list settings need tweaking a bit?
>>>
>>> Also, just where did he originaly harvest all those addresses from,
>>> are they publicly available, or is there a gaping hole in some
>>> server somewhere.
>> Just collect all addresses from the list ending with freebsd.org?
>>
>> Erich
> Indeed, so some settings might do with a tweak, to at least obfuscate
> posters addresses, so that at least script kiddies are flumoxed.
Actually, they're all the addresses found in the committers section of 
the site. No scripting required.

As I've mentioned before, I'm not sure this is a troll as such.


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