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Exploit Found in Seti@Home

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-wanna-find-an-alien dept.

Jamie noted that an Exploit was found in Seti@Home and there is code exploiting the hole actually running about in the wild. Patches are available for those of you not interested in running a public warez server or DoS client ;)

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  1. Interesting by MC68040 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Seems a lot of people freaked over this, understandable, but aren't they aware that running any software leads to security risks?

    - Oh my bad, I guess it's mostly the windows client users that have experienced that before...

    (I was also always sure there was a little man inside my computer doing all the work, little did I know that it was a little alien). /040

  2. Re:In the wild or not? by stevejsmith · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, you know that supposed fourth dimension, time? Could it be possible that at the time of the writing of the first one there wasn't one but now there is? Over time things change...I'm sure you can find it in a book somewhere.

    Oh, and then there's the "to our knowledge" clause. Maybe they're just not as knowledgable?

  3. If you're asking people for their cycles... by cperciva · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    wouldn't it make sense to at least allow people to know what they're running?

    I'm not saying that open source is the best solution in all circumstances, but when you're asking people to run your code it seems that the least you could do would be to provide them with the source code.

    --
    Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
  4. Re:That's why I only give my extra cycles to by error0x100 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Uh, how the hell is this "flamebait"? There is nothing inflammatory in there, its just a passing comment. Grow up, moderators.

  5. And a very special... by JemalCole · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And a very special "fuck you" to Taco for complaining about there being nothing worth posting today.

  6. I know what's really going on, Stuart by dillon_rinker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's the queers. They're in it with the aliens. They're building carefully crafted packets to remote control the SETI client for gay martians. I swear...