Securelevels useless?
Several people wrote in about Jason Miller’s article “How not to respond to a security advisory” in a SecurityFocus opinion column. The short version is that a recent advisory shows that root can temporarily replace system immutable files by mounting over them. That’s not a shockingly new discovery (some people would even expect that to be the case), but Jason took offense in Theo’s vendor reply, which reportedly was “Sorry, we are going to change nothing. Securelevels are useless.”