Paul Vixie

Paul Vixie
Paul Vixie is an American Internet pioneer, the author of several RFCs and some Unix software...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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ISC found that speaking to vendors through the CERT advisory process was somewhat awkward and made for extra work on both sides, ... The next time we learn, through CERT or otherwise, that there is an attackable bug in code that we've published, we hope to have a direct and very private communications forum with the people who run the Internet infrastructure or who need lead time to prepare patches for their customers.
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ISC remains deeply apologetic that prior versions of BIND did not properly catch the configuration error that you appear to have built your business on.
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It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.
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You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?
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Note that if I can get you to su and say something just by asking, you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it.
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The internet is not for sissies.
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The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell.
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The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.
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Personally i prefer the MX RR and a stylized name, but i was trying to solve the problem rather than create an industry.
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With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.
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The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what should be done. Instead, talk about what is being done and what will be done by the amorphous unreachable undefinable blob called the internet user base.
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Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed.
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We're seeing some very deliberate attacks against some high profile targets right now, to showcase the talent of the attacker, so they can get work for the Russian mafia or whoever it may be.