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DirectX Flaw Leaves Windows Vulnerable
cryonic*angel writes "Just when you thought it was safe to start buying music from BuyMusic, another another Windows security flaw is found, in DirectX this time, that basically affects every possible windows configuration that is still supported. I wonder, will they indemnify me for this?"
I'd like to see someone reverse engineer this "nice system" then hack a few nameservers and point update.microsoft.com at their new "windows update" server.
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Doesn't DRI provide a similar problem for linux/XFree86? If not a security problem, then certainly a stability problem. I have had games (in linux) that freeze up X so hard that nothing can be done to recover the system short of a hard reboot. It is not always possible to connect another computer to the system that is locked up so frickin hard and ssh in to fix things (like kill/restart X or terminate the offending program).
I'm not dissing linux here...it is all I use...but this DRI thing (direct access to hardware) has made me wonder on occassion as well as curse in response to a hard lockup.
Really, is there no security concern with DRI?
In Bushworld, they struggle to keep church and state separate in Iraq as they increasingly merge the two in America.