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Code Auditing the Defcon Way
An anonymous reader writes "Last weekend at Defcon, the best and brightest hackers got together to play Capture the Flag, a weekend long hacking event that is the premier event of its kind. According to the results, Shellphish won (UC Santa Barbara students led by professor Giovanni Vigna). An article at SecurityFocus states that the competition was far more technical than in previous years, focusing on reverse engineering skills and code auditing." From the article: "The game required skills that are also required by both security researchers and hackers, such as ability to analyze attack vectors, understanding and automating attacks, finding new, unpredictable ways to exploit things...It's about analyzing the security posture of a system that is given to you and about which you initially know nothing."
AKA a nazi fanatic loser.
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1. You rejuvenate and dance when you hear a linux flaw exposed, but you conveniently ignore the thousands of security flaws exposed in windows.
2. You yell loudly TROLL! at any person's post or at any person you see posting facts that you do not want to hear about your oh so cool windows.
3. You know it's a classic case of penis envy, you don't have all the support, software and hardware available for windows and you have to let that anger out somewhere, but you don't have the brains to admit it.
4. You hate linux, hate Red Hat, but race to emulate linux, have programs to run linux from within windows, and spend a $300 on a linux emulator.
5. You cannot admit that you don't have professional usage of windows anywhere.
6. You cannot admit that most of the joe user out there when told that there is windows will respond, what is that?
7. You cannot admit that there is no professional printing capabilities in windows.
8. You cannot admit that you are a masochist (otherwise why would someone spend hours playing with scripts,
and recompiling programs that are available for linux?)
9. You cannot admit that there is no professional desktop publishing done on windows.
10. You cannot admit that no one in their right mind would do professional video editing in windows.
11. You cannot admit that windows sucks when it comes for gaming/home entertainment or education.
12. You have problems in understanding linux, and you will blame your own incompetence on linux.
13. You have problems in pointing a clicking, but have no problems in wading through cryptic scripts written by lunatics.
14. Nothing will get past that shit that fills your head, you will not admit to any facts.
15. You can't admit that naming of windows components, packages, and others are weird and fits profiles of troubled teenagers. longhorn,
me, xp
16. You feel angered because you were left out by linux's technologies, they support Mac, Sun sparc, but not windows.
17. You feel inferior deep inside but unable to admit it, you don't have a file system as easy and powerful as ext3.
18. You cannot tell that not a single office package outside Sun's is worth looking at or bothering with.
19. You don't know that your CD recorder software sucks.
20. You don't have DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW support in your pathetic OS.
21. While the rest of the world moves on, you're stuck in a stone age technology that needs third party software to boot into GUI.
22. You act out of prejudice, you kill file domains and users of specific news readers while you ignore the bullshit that your fellow windows losers post.
23. You don't know commercial support in windows is almost non existent.
24. You miss the fact that companies are leaving windows because of the chaos, and the cheap windows pirate losers who are unwilling to pay and support hard work.
25. You are unaware that windows has no terminal services (there is a lame one that no one uses), and commercial support for it is not happening.
26. You are unaware that setting up servers on linux takes couple of minutes while on windows, good luck playing with configuration scripts.
27. You cannot admit that support for USB on windows is laughable at best.
28. You think that windows is better because Microsoft told you so.
29. You spend countless hours flaming people because they post their opinions about your oh so cool windows and your attitude, instead of researching things for yourself and understanding fact in order not to look this stupid.
30. You think that anyone who uses windows has a clue.
31. You think that windows cannot crash.
32. You think that everyone is interested in your conspiracy theories about Open Source (or should i say Open Sores in order for you, teenagers to understand?), and how they destroyed windows,
33. You keep ignoring the fact that thousands of windows servers get hacked every day, but it takes one linux server hacked to get you and your fellow windows idiots to dance and celebrate.