Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of lowdown-drafts-053008

Timestamp:

Jun 3, 2008, 7:00:20 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

Jamie McClelland

Comment:

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 But they led to another discovery.
 
-While we were researching what to do, the Debian developers sent out an advisory about a horrible exploit. A couple of definitions are in order.
+While we were researching what to do, the Debian developers sent out an advisory about a horrible vulnerability. A couple of definitions are in order.
 
 Debian is a free operating system that uses the GNU tools and the Linux kernel; it's the operating system we use on our servers.
 
-An exploit is a piece of code that can be used by a clever attacker to get access to a server and do damage, steal data or illicitly use resources.
+An vulnerability is a weakness in a piece of code that can be used by a clever attacker to get access to a server and do damage, steal data or illicitly use resources.
 
 One other definition: an RSA key. An RSA key is a long string of characters that is unique to every server that provides the basis for the
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 RSA key itself.
 
-They released a "patch" to fix this and we installed it on all servers  but,
+The Debian developers immediately released a patch to fix the vulnerable code and we installed it on all servers  but,
 of course, this meant that all of our servers identified themselves
 differently to the world. As a result, everyone who connects to our server