From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: /proc/net/ip_conntrack permissions
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 04:13:45 +0200
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I've added a patch to change /proc/net/ip_conntrack permissions
to 0440. It contains privileged information and shouldn't be
world readable. I was just wondering why this hasn't been done
before, does anyone know a good reason not to change it ?

Regards
Patrick