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Some Linux Distros Found Vulnerable By Default
TuringTest writes "Security Focus carries an article about a security compromise found on several major distros due to bad default settings in the Linux kernel. 'It's a sad day when an ancient fork bomb attack can still take down most of the latest Linux distributions', says the writer. The attack was performed by spawning lots of processes from a normal user shell. Is interesting to note that Debian was not among the distros that fell to the attack. The writer also praises the OpenBSD policy of Secure by Default."
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This is getting modded as funny? Are you joking? It's a clear troll. Replace "windows" with "linux" and it would have been modded down faster than GNAA.
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I was apparently getting a new mplayer with every frame or something. Have to quickly VNC from another machine to do a shutdown.
stop saying lol . jesus wept! i will kill you for saying lol so much! why - o - why. jesus wept (again) oh bloody fuck fuck shit wankstain bastard think of something else, like a proper repliy. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
His original post was accurate, but offtopic. And reading your last statement there, I'll fling the kettle comment right back at you. :)
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Is Slashdot "editor" a full-time job? Like do people actually do this 8-hours a day and nothing else? Or is it like, people who work on the backend just randomly check the queue and approve stories they like from time to time? Because if this is a full-time job, these dudes should be canned. How hard is it to click through the link provided by the submitter and read it to see if their writeup matches the gist of the article? I mean, most sites that purport to be news sites actually do their own writeup for every article - the article itself! Why is it so hard to read the linked articles?
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