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HP Uses DMCA To Quash Vulnerability Publication
Several readers wrote to note the fact that HP has evidently threatened to use the DMCA and computer crime laws against SnoSoft who have found a security flaw in Tru64. The quote from the HP VP is that the accused "could be fined up to $500,000 and imprisoned for up to five years."
got fed up of corporate bullshit
here is the warez, nothing special, but it does the job
note, this is just one of many many exploitable bofs in tru64 5.x
http://deepmagic.securify.org.uk:8080/su.c
phased
phased@mail
Email their president and CEO from this page!
Tell her in NICE non flaming tones why you feel what they are doing is wrong. Explain that this kind of action makes you unwilling to buy any more products from them.
--Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
You can download the source code here.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Bruce
Bruce Perens.
Bruce
Bruce Perens.
Bruce
Bruce Perens.
Just in case few of us here don't know about him. You can find his homepage here
, and in his Bio you can find:
" Hewlett-Packard Corporation - 2000 to Present
Senior strategist, Linux and Open Source. I am the first Open Source evangelist to gain a role in top management of a multi-Billion-dollar corporation. On the org chart there are only three people between me and the CEO - a general manager, a vice president, and a president. Among my assignments is to challenge HP management."
So he's in position to speak up in this case.
Note: I don't know if it's redundent but I'm sure some people would like to know. I don't ask for any mod point.
Bruce
Bruce Perens.
Bruce
Bruce Perens.
Well at least u get an anser if u write to him (could be an automatic reply tho cause his mailbox has been spammed by the /. crows ;)
:-)". I can assure you that my :-). We also encourage our customers and 3rd parties
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--- schnipp ---
Dirk,
Appreciate your note and concern. Let me just start by saying, "don't
believe everything you read in the press
primary interest and concern is for the Tru64 customers and that the
Tru64 engineering team is committed to finding and fixing any security
problem in the product and getting these fixes/notifications out to
customers ASAP. Trying to do everything possible for Tru64
customers is what motivates and brings me to work every day
(and night
that find security issues in the product to coordinate through the
CERT process, which has been set up to support both product
vendors and customers. Again, I appreciate your concern and
feedback.
Kent
-----Original Message-----
From: Dirk Lenneffer [mailto:*********.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 11:42 PM
To: Ferson, Kent
Subject: TRUE64 exploit
dear mr. ferson,
instead of threatening the people who do YOUR work of finding bugs in
your product you should simply thank them, fix the bug and move along.
this last act of yours doesnt give us as customers great confidence in
your way of handling security related issues within your products.
best regards
--- schnapp ---
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The EFF I respect. I understand their issues, and the fact that we are totally under assault by corporations who want to chop up the digital world and sell it to us at as much as we can possibly afford to pay. Digital "Coal Towns" (look it up if you want to see some of America's greatest corporate crimes against humanity in the past).
/. crowd, I'd like to say lets stick to what we are specifically interested with on this board... and not give money to people who would love to "engineer through legislation" a power struggle at the expense of some Americans over other Americans.
As a member of the media, and a person that touches base with the ACLU every few weeks, I'll say that the ACLU is no longer interested in civil liberties, but more interested in legislating this society to a direction that they would prefer us to act. Trying to modify behavior through legislation is very different than protecting the right for us to act the way WE WANT TO ACT.
As of late, they seem to be only interested in anyone else but a person interested in computers. After talking with me several times face to face, the local rep of the ACLU has pretty much explained about their crusade against private Christian schools (please not the stressing of private) and their deemed "objectionable behavior" by those schools, and active interest in what goes on inside those schools. Those activities are rather curious for an organization like the ACLU, are they not?
After talkig to them about these subjects, I would never, EVER give them another dollar. They appear to represent the civil liberties of only SOME AMERICANS. OF COURSE, before I get slapped back, I would like to repeat this... imho, IMHO, IMHO!
So as a member in good standing of the
This is a call to not listen to the ACLU. For computer issues, please stick your money to the EFF. The ACLU has gotten batty in its old age, and is trying to change the way we think, which the last time I checked, is a CIVIL LIBERTY.
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