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Homeland Security Uncovers Critical Flaw in X11
Amy's Robot writes "An open-source security audit program funded by the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security has flagged a critical vulnerability in the X Window System (X11) which is used in Unix and Linux systems. A missing parentheses in a bit of code is to blame. The error can grant a user root access, and was discovered using an automated code-scanning tool." While serious, the flaw has already been corrected.
I hope stupidity isn't contagious or else I might become like you. Go back to digg where you belong.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Would you rather the go to each persons home and hand them a disk with the fresh source code?
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
The government is in cohoots with Microsoft! This is all just a smear campaign because we KNOW that security vulnerabilities like this do NOT happen in Open Source software! The software goes through "many eyes" who catch these kinds of things. The fact that it occurs in recent and older versions of the software simply proves they're just smearing, and there's no basis for this in fact. I'm so tired of other people pointing out the security flaws in our software. Don't they understand we're working towards a common goal of ridding the world of Microsoft who make useful, but insecure software! We want the world to use software that's more difficult to use, but secure. That way, only people who know what they're doing will ever use a computer, just as our lord, Linus, says it should be. Torvaldo Fhtagn!
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