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Security Hole in Morpheus

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the your-hard-drive-is-an-open-book dept.

Saint Aardvark writes: "The BBC reports that they've been contacted by a group claiming to be able to copy any file off some Morpheus user's hard drives. Apparently a bug allows for a great deal more file-sharing for some users of the software than intended ..." Man this thing got submitted a lot. I've never actually seen Morpheus, but apparently a lot of readers have! There really isn't a lot of information except that if you're running Morpheus, you might as well consider your hard drive world readable ;)

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  1. Rats by Mdog · · Score: 5, Funny

    This might mean that people could get to my private, copywritten mp3s against my will.

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  2. If you would have taken the red pill by Typingsux · · Score: 1, Funny
    You wouldn't be in this mess

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  3. M.O.R.P.H.E.U.S. by ekrout · · Score: 5, Funny

    M ultimedia code
    O rganized
    R ather
    P oorly,
    H enceforth,
    E veryone can
    U se your
    S hit

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  4. Security Hole in Morpheus by Lendrick · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess Agent Smith's job just got a lot easier.

  5. Re:ARTICLE IS FALSE by krokodil · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess next time they will announce same bug
    in apache server.