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SEC Investigating SCO?
Udo Schmitz writes "As Groklaw reports, the SCO Group stated in a SEC filing from yesterday: 'In addition, regulators or others in the Linux market and some foreign regulators have initiated or in the future may initiate legal actions against us, all of which may negatively impact our operations and future operating performance.' Does this mean the SEC finally started to pull some stops? SCOs and Canopys financial dealings (Vultus acquisition anyone?) long ago lead to speculations in the Linux community about the legality of their business practices, or the whole lawsuit just being a stock scam."
Somebody puts a stop to this madness...
There's a guy currently flooding Slashdot with randomly generated crap messages with the intent of disrupting normal discussion. Click on one of the links below to see what I mean. If you have mod points left and aren't sure what to use them for, plase mod him down so we can get his network banned.
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Your help would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
Who is the mod who was stupid enough to classify these comments as Troll? These are dead-on ontopic and informative/insightful.
I wish I had points. You deserve better.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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There's a guy currently flooding Slashdot with randomly generated crap messages with the intent of disrupting normal discussion. Click on one of the links below to see what I mean. If you have mod points left and aren't sure what to use them for, plase mod him down so we can get his network banned.
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Your help would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
If you actually HAVE a different use for your mod points, just use them elsewhere and don't reply. But keep in mind that crapflooding WILL come to one of your discussions sooner or later.
Nobody thinks you're anybody but the same guy linking to his own posts. Shut the fuck up. Seriously, I hope your network gets banned too.
Actually, it's more likely that you are the guy trying to prevent getting modded down, as one of your networks was already banned earlier today.
You're not a good troll. You're way too longwinded. By the way, trollocks are quite stupid creatures in Wheel of Time.
Since this has become a KDE/Gnome thread, notice that KDE has SERIOUS security flaws in ALL current implementations!
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/tmp directory, KDE said in an advisory. They also introduced a new bug, breaking kimgio's compatibility with .rgb images.
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?
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Linux users still at risk from KDE flaw
Patch and patch again.
By Matthew Broersma, Techworld
Linux users who patched their systems for a serious security vulnerability in KDE last month will have to patch once again, due to errors in the original patch, according to the KDE project.
The vulnerability affects kdelibs, specifically an error in the kimgio component when processing PCX image files. Kimgio is used in KHTML-based Web browsers as well as KDE imaging applications such as kpresenter and ksnapshot, meaning that if an image crafted to exploit the flaw were viewed in any of these applications, they could allow an attacker to execute malicious code and take over a system. The flaw affects KDE versions 3.2 to 3.4, according to KDE.
The patches issued last month fixed most of the problems, but still allowed local users to exploit the bug by serving files from the
The problems will mean a fresh round of patching for Unix-derived systems using KDE, one of the two most popular desktop environments for Unix and Linux. KDE released a new patch fixing the problems with the original patch, and operating system vendors such as Red Hat and Suse have followed suit this week.
Software vendors are under pressure to deliver timely patches, but faulty updates are not unknown as a result, say security experts. Last week, for instance, Microsoft re-released a critical security update - - after it caused networking problems for many users.
Such problems can mean a major headache for system administrators, but they seem to be on the wane, according to Thomas Kristensen, CTO of Danish security firm Secunia. "Generally speaking I'd say that most vendors have improved significantly over the last two years when it comes to quality testing of their security fixes," he said.
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Wow, I guess the 'K' really does stand for 'Krappie'!
(eat that)
fak3r
AMERiCA) migh7 be
"Gore never claimed to have "invented" the Internet. What he said was: During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
So my joke works after all.. because I did say CREATE and not INVENT.
go chomp on a baby ruth from the swimming pool.
Go look up the word "initiative" texan.
I know that's too many syllables and it makes your brain hurt, but give it a try anyway.
Also, it's ironic you criticize me for a typo, when you obviously don't have a solid understanding of the English language.
Plenty of coffe in Austin, and you have my address ;)