Re: [bitfolk] XSA-108?

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Author: Andy Smith
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Hello,

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 04:55:48AM +0200, Andreas Olsson wrote:
> I'm wondering whatever Bitfolk has made any preliminary plans in regards
> to the still embargoed XSA-108 Xen security issue? If it turns out to be
> something sufficiently bad, can we expect short notice patching-reboots?


Yes. I haven't said anything because without knowing what it is it's
either going to be no action or short notice reboots.

> On that note, has Bitfolk made any attempts to get on the Xen
> pre-disclosure list? I see that prgmr.com recently got added to it, and
> they kind of appear to be in the same category as Bitfolk.


That's interesting, I did not know such small hosters were allowed
on it. I will look into that, thanks.

Cheers,
Andy

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