[Debian-audit] Funny (and not so funny) credit stuff

From: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs_at_debian.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:10:34 +0100

(Not funny)
It seems one of the bugs I reported (CAN-2005-0004) has even ended on ISS's
Xforce database. It seems, however, that they got the information from
Ubuntu's advisories (there was also a Debian advisorie DSA-647) since I
don't see any credit at http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/18922 nor to the
Debian Security Audit Team nor to myself.

(Funny)
It seems that, along the way, 8-bit ASCII characters (like 'ñ' in my
surname) are lost. Debian and Ubuntu spell my name properly (as does
LWN.net), but the MySQL guys [0], Mandrake [1] and Gentoo [2] have
mispelled it every time. Unfortunately "Pena" means "Pity" in Spanish...
It seems that this is being done all over the place since a Google search
for '"javier fernandez-sanguino pena" -peña' turns out 5790 hits (vs.
47,900 if you just try "javier fernandez-sanguino peña")

Oh, I just found some I can poke at to get this fixed
(http://directory.fsf.org/security/system/tiger.html)

:^)

Regards

Javier

[0] http://lists.mysql.com/internals/20600
[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/123121/
and http://lwn.net/Alerts/122665/
[2] http://lwn.net/Alerts/120847/
and http://lwn.net/Alerts/121394/

Received on Sat Feb 12 2005 - 20:10:36 GMT

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