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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 ;)

19 of 264 comments (clear)

  1. Hmmmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Means I'll be able to get all those pictures of cum-covered Sarcasta from Taco...

  2. fo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    123----20

    I claim this fp for all of ac trolls

  3. FRICK! by ZaBu911 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh well, looks like some basement hacker will find out about my secret stash of gay pr0n. Oh no! I'll never be able to show my face in public again.

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  4. Re:This isn't new. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oh shut up

  5. Re:giFT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thanks for the stereotypical OS troll. You're wrong, but we appreciate you parroting your intelligent brethren.

  6. Re:Uhh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HA! So somebody else *actually* researched this "hack" before posting stupid shit to Slashdot. Thank you, my friend. You have restored my faith in humanity.

  7. Moderators on crack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The parent post is totally offtopic and borderline flamebait. I swear the quality of the moderation here as deteriorated signficantly in the past few weeks. I'm hope the moderator(s) who modded the parent up will get punished in metamod.

    As a side note, people on slashdot have been saying for years that ftp(and wu-ftp in particular) is insecure. Also conveniently left out of your post is the fact that wu-ftp isn't installed by default and port 21 is firewalled by default on the most popular distros (infact, some distro don't even have wu-ftp).

    1. Re:Moderators on crack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      As a side note, people on slashdot have been saying for years that ftp(and wu-ftp in particular) is insecure. Also conveniently left out of your post is the fact that wu-ftp isn't installed by default and port 21 is firewalled by default on the most popular distros (infact, some distro don't even have wu-ftp).

      I wasn't aware that Morpheus was included on the default XP install.

  8. Re:What's new? by Pedrito · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Oh blow me. A small spelling error.

  9. Fuck off, troll. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck off, troll. Your mental processes must be on par with those of the average piece of cow dung. It pains me to think that, by the mere act of typing, I am crushing millions upon millions of amoebae and bacteria living on my keyboard with more intellectual capacity and evolutionary potential than you.

  10. Re:Uh oh! Security Hole! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Make it so people can reply to your journal.

    Thanks.

  11. Slashdot Not Newsworthy by evilviper · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it just me or have the quality of slashdot stories lately been pretty crappy? From fakes like this one, to double-posts, to the typical "Look at this new program that's been around for 5 years". Slashdot needs a system to administer the admins before they go too far.

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    1. Re:Slashdot Not Newsworthy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Slashdot is just a big ol' pile of SLOP lately, now isn't it? So much SLOP here it's even been overflowing onto Kuro5hin lately! SLOP, SLOP, SLOP! So much fucking SLOP!!

      . . . Stop me before I post again!

  12. Does... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does ANAL COX use Morpheus? Does he use it to distribute his ANAL COX to the world??? I don't want to catch AIDS~1.STD.VBS that way!!

  13. mod THREAD up dudes! (n/t) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (n/t)

  14. Re:S.U.C.K M.Y. D.I.C.K.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    how about:

    M y
    O strich
    R equires
    P robing
    H enceforth
    E nsuring
    U ranus'
    S anctity

    Makes more sense, methinks.

  15. Felch? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does anyone here know how to use FELCHMALE? I can't get it to work, it doesn't like my POP server!! Maybe ANAL COX knows how? He wrote it, didn't he?

  16. ЖằцэỐЉШ& by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    & #8353;&#64256 ;&#877 6;&#87 19;&#803 9;&#1032 ;&#102 6;Gaping hole in goatse.cx!

  17. Re:Ermm, its actually a bit worse than some think. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I agree. This thread is stupid and retarded. Now if it turned on your Guest account or enabled you to see the WHOLE drive and not just the shit YOU ALREADY DECIDED TO SHARE, this might be a fuckin news story.