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Linux Kernel Back-Door Hack Attempt Discovered
An anonymous reader writes "The BitKeeper to CVS gateway was apparently hacked in an attempt to add a root exploit back door to the Linux kernel, according to the linux-kernel archive. The change was in the file kernel/exit.c and changed the user ID of a process to root under the guise of checking the validity of some flags. The core Linux BitKeeper kernel repository was not at risk, and in fact it was the BitKeeper CVS export scripts that detected the unauthorized modifications to CVS. The changes were falsely attributed in CVS to long-time Linux developer davem (David Miller). Users of the BKCVS repository should resync their trees to remove the offending code if they had replicated it since yesterday."
what is the country of attacker has anything to do with attack capability? so, the people in russia live in worse conditions than the US, they still have ethics, and some americans don't, as you yourself point out (RedHat is mostly american).
i am sorry to see that this attitude of self righteousness is being internalized by americans and europeans more and more everyday.
ato
> War is necrophilia.
No, having sex with dead people is necrophilia.
Ah, that happened a long time ago.
In fact, that's what drew my eye to your post.
See you again someday soon.
Writers imply. Readers infer.
ok, let me clarify. it is hard to catch someone from france, even though it is not a third world country. does what i have written make sense now? why would i want to bash french? why is calling a country third world country bashing?
ato
I think he meant: War is having sex with dead people.
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Repeat after me... 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11
Uh, those (with the exception of 1) are prime numbers, not square numbers. The square numbers are ones which are an integer multiplied by itself, i.e. 1 (1x1), 4 (2x2), 9 (3x3), 16 (4x4), 25 (5x5) etc. In 2001 (the book, and I think the film) the monolith was 1x4x9. In later books it was stated that this series extended beyond three dimensions.
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A square numbers is one which is equal to n^2 when n is a whole number. You are almost talking about primes numbers but you made a mistake, 1 is not a prime. A prime p has to be divisible by two distinct (ie. different) numbers, 1 and itself. 1 and 1 are not distinct (there are some good reasons for this mentioned in the links bellow).
Square Numbers
Prime Numbers
Er.. maybe that's what he meant... but even so.. that's not true either.
War n A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties.