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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. FP!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Got an FP!

    cool.

    this is great.

  2. ROTFLWTFBBQ by Flamesplash · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    mmmmmm BBQ *drools*

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    "Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
  3. Hold On by Lucas+Membrane · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wasn't this SET@home thing programmed in Ada? Ada isn't supposed to allow buffer overruns. What gives?

  4. Bad net behavior by MrWa · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    /. is made up of various populations - that is why oen post will say the MPAA is bad while the next will praise the new geek movie coming out. One thing we all have in common is the Internet.

    Being part of a community involves give and take. /. has done its fair of giving, so far as links to news and a place to comment is concerned. This has also involved more than a fair share of taking.

    As a responsible net-citizen, though, the editors need to be far more considerate of other people. This is a clear case of inproper net behavior, something I would expect the newest AOL-newbie, spam producing, weenie to do.

    Instead of complaining about how much spam you get everyday, Taco, why don't you do the community something useful and mirror the websites that you link to. We whine and complain about bad patents, spam, copyright abuse, monopolies, and then treat the net community with disrespect by effectively dos'ing random servers? It isn't funny anymore.

  5. Time to retire C by Alomex · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Seriously, with the kind of computational power that is now available even in a bottom-of-the-line gray-box PC the time has come to retire mainstream languages that do not have array bounds checking built-in.

    <rant>
    We are placing the entire computing infrastructure of the nation at risk in the name of a few measly clock cycles that would be spent performing bounds check.

    Engineers know that the only way to have realiable systems is to have substantial safety margins and backup systems. This is a lesson that we software developers ignore at our own peril.
    </rant>

    1. Re:Time to retire C by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I also suggest another moderation category:

      -2, Another post that protrays Microsoft as the victim and claims to be holier than thou

  6. ODDS? by saskboy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The odds of my computer being tricked into contacting a fake SETI@home server, are about as slim as they are of me finding alien life.

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    Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
  7. Re:Aliens exploiting? by vsprintf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Good God - 70% Insightful, 30% Interesting ? Where's the +1 Funny ?

    The 12-year-olds are moderating again today. Expect to see lots of redundant mods as well.