[Info-vax] SAMBA and Ransomeware

[Simon Clubley]

On 2017-07-16, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>
>>Like web browsers, web servers, browser plugins, JavaScript engines,
>>SSL libraries, application servers, CMS'es, mail servers and
>>a ton of other stuff.
>
> Like some of that stuff, yeah.  But most of that stuff I don't want on a
> server in the first place.  And the stuff I do want on a server, I want to
> fight to make as stable as possible.  But an SMB server inherently cannot
> be.  
>

There's also the possibility that code written today may be written
to various standards because of now known security issues from the
past but an older codebase may not have been modified to conform
to those standards.

Simon.

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