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RE: [PHP-DEV] CVS Account Request From: Sterling Hughes (Sterling.Hughes <email protected>)
Date: 11/15/00

At 02:19 PM 11/15/2000 -0800, Myke Hines wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Zeev Suraski [mailto:zeev <email protected>]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 2:13 PM
>To: Rasmus Lerdorf
>Cc: Sterling Hughes; php-dev <email protected>
>Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] CVS Account Request
>
>
> > If you see patches flowing in from
> >that guy, and they look ok, it means two things - he's unlikely to be a
> >hacker, and he's probably in a real need for a CVS account.
>
>I think that is totally not true.. you can't tell if a person is a hacker
>just because they do a couple of good patches..

No, but it does make it harder for them to get cvs access. Today I could
request cvs access just for kicks (remember from junior high "Is Ivana
Tinkle in the building?"), having it be a little harder does significantly
decrease the likeliness of PHP being hacked (all though doesn't altogether
eliminate it) and it also makes sure that the person isn't requesting
access just for a single patch or maybe a few patches over a three year
period...

-Sterling 

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