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Trojan Found in libpcap and tcpdump
msolnik writes "Members of The Houston Linux Users Group discovered that the newest sources of libpcap and tcpdump available from tcpdump.org were contaminated with trojan code. HLUG has notified the maintainers of tcpdump.org. See our reports here or here."
... but great for Open Source.
One of the flaws of open source in our current legal environment is that it appears to not matter much the ill intent of authors of such malevolent code. If there is no money involved, they get away with it.
I'd personally like to see them getting ass raped in a federal prison or the equivalent institution in a non-US locale. I'll keep dreaming.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
LOL - and where might ibiblio get them from? Fucktard.
It seems to me that it is now more important than ever to buy a Microsoft product so your don't fall prey to wicked hackers because the 16 year old pizza delivery boy who wrote the software that blits rectangles to your screen was running a compromised version of glibc that allowed a 25 year old pedophile from Pakistan to insert a trojan in said rectangle blitting program.
Just buy it from Microsoft. A) They have a vested interest is selling you good software. B) You won't end up with 5000 little screwball codelets each designed to perform some miniscule function, that are impossible for you to actually audit because you don't have enough time, even if you gave up anime AND skipped the Harry Potter premiere.
Cunning linguists
LOL mad propz
Mmmmm. Gentoo, mmmmmm gentoo r0x0r5 so much i'm wanking right now... mmm love it, gentoo is sooo fucking cool, like the best parts of BSD (the licence? no, 'fraid not) and the worst parts of linux (the licence? 'fraid so.) What is it with you Gentoo 'tards? RH not unstable enough for you? LFS too hard? Oh, yes I forgot, you all have Athlon 2200+ that you use for surfing the web, so obviously you have spare cycles for rebuilding your distro every fucking week. Fucking dumbass source distro if ever there was one - a good job daddy bought you all those CPU cycles in exchange for blowjobs and tight anal sex, isn't it?
Ooooh, bad, nasty flamebait. How dare you mock open-source's lame-ass anti-MS arguments!
Starsky
Hey look, my perfect linux systems got 0wned, but hey there's big bad Microsoft over there, they might be doing this, hey pay attention to Microsoft hey now Microsoft is bad, please stop talking about anything that might be bad in linux because Microsoft is a bunch of meanie poo-poohs.
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.