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Huge security hole in Internet Explorer for MacOS
Brad Lucier writes "Macintouch
is reporting
(go down the page a bit)
that Internet Explorer 5.1, which comes preinstalled on MacOS X 10.1,
has a huge security hole---when it downloads arbitrary programs encoded
in the Macintosh's standard BinHex (.hqx) format, it automatically
executes them. " Well I guess thats one way to make Unix insecure. Can anyone actually confirm this since it looks kinda sketchy. I wonder what someone's rationale would be for that:"Oh this won't hurt anyone, and saving that extra 'OK' click will be great!".
is there a fp yet?
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
why anonymous? think different.
'Fecal Troll Matter.' Are you the reincarnation of the WIPO troll? And no, you're not supreme. Get down and lick my boots.
This story from the Northwest Florida Dailynews tells the story of a teacher that wishes Bush died in the terrorist attacks on September 11 and a suspension for using school computers for pornographic content.
No, it deserves a -1 because it is false information.
slashdot is archiving -1 posts... wtf?
moderators: only a cock gobbling fag would moderate this down
Recent American History, from the Black Panthers to Waco, has been a continuous massacre of free citizens by government authorities. Of what use is the right to keep and bear arms, if the citizens are unable to use correctly those same arms?
I'm not an American, and I don't know the American schooling system, but let me guess: there are NO shooting classes in American elemetary schools, right? I imagined so. What America needs is a continued effort in gun education, from the most tender age until they pry that gun from away your lifeless fingers. How to use, carry, maintain, and, most important, how to fucking SHOOT those goddamn guns!
FUCK
you
ALL!!!
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The Islamic "Burcha" is worn in some areas as an "advertisement" that the woman has been brutally circumcised according to ancient tribal customs. Her intimate "private zone" has become a flat featureless area like a "porcelain doll" with just a pen-size orifice comparable to reptiles or birds "cloacae". She is "less filth" with no remaining "pubic scalp" left after being circumcised and therefore eligible for traditional marriage.
Interesting note: When I use the macs at my high school (G4's), IE never seems to work for them, so I always use Netscape. However, I also like to check my email using the macs, and there is no telnet application on these macs, and I can't install NCSA telnet on them because everything on the computer is locked. However, I found a way around it. When I download the hqx version of NCSA, it autoinstalls, bypassing "foolproof" security. I still can't use the telnet app unless I call it up through netscape using telnet: . I just thought this was interesting...because it isn't just IE that does it...it is the stupid hqx and stuffit expander things. I would definitely disable those options. (If I could...but the security features don't let me change anything!)
The anti-salmon
Of course. That must be why it supports CSS better than 5.5 for the PeeCee.
sounds like a troll has case envy.
your an idiot.
Somebody please mod down the parent as "humorless prick". Thanks.
hahaha..
;)
Sure Windows 2000 is reaL SECURE.
Stupid Unix users
ps. talk talk talk is easy, have you followed a course by M$?
Djaz
The funny thing is he is 99% sure about something which he hasn't received yet. (As they say on /. ...)
If I had mod points, -1, Bad Spelling.
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