Internet Virus: SunOS patches

[Henry Troup]

The recent experience brings one thing to mind - without source,
or extensive testing of `undocumented features', it's d_mn hard
to know if your system is secure.  And, as someone pointed out, you
really need more than that - either recompile everything, or determine
somehow what options were passed to make.
 
In a previous incarnation, I was an IBM VM/CMS system programmer (not
employed by IBM).  I left that jobs when we started getting object-code
only distribution from IBM.  We couldn't tell what fixes were applied-
IBM couldn't even tell.  And the product in question was new and very 
unstable.  
 

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