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Debian Locks Out Developers
daria42 wrote in with an update to an earlier story about a Debian server that was compromised. He explains: "The Debian GNU/Linux project has discovered a compromised developer account was used to gain access to a server compromised this week. A local kernel vulnerability was then used to gain root access. Due to this, a number of developers with weak passwords have been locked out of their system accounts." To be fair, they'll most likely be let in once everything's back to normal. Of course, they'll probably need to set safer passwords too.
Oh. Either way, I mostly use FreeBSD now anyways. Also notice how Linux has been patched, no having to worry about 30-day cycles like with M$. Oh, and no exploit on any non-Windows system has ever allowed an attacker to get administrator access by looking in a fracking picture like one MS exploit did.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Whats going on here. In the "related links" to the left of the article.
/. had a pleasingly shambolic integrity.
I have a couple of links "Compare prices on Linux Software" duh!
Curious as to how they can do a price comparison between free beer "a" and free beer "b"
I clicked the link -- which takes me to a pricegrabber.com site full of adverts for windows PCs.
Why bother! Who is going to by a windows PC when they were looking for cheaper Linux software?
This sort of poorly directed advertising just brings the whole browsing eexperience down a notch in the same way that each spam received makes e-mail that much less useful.
Call me niave but I did expect better of Slashdot. I know the articles can be out of date and/or lame, and, many of the posters (probably including myself) have a warped world view but I always though
Oh well I am too old for a MYSPACE account?
Old COBOL programmers never die. They just code in C.