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Major Security Hole In Samsung Linux Drivers

GerbilSoft writes with news of a major security hole in Samsung's proprietary Linux printer drivers. From the Ubuntu Forums: "Just to inform you about a recent post on the French Ubuntu forum about Samsung drivers (sorry, in French). [Google translation here.] It appears that Samsung unified drivers change rights on some parts of the system: After installing the drivers, applications may launch using root rights, without asking any password. What is more, you may be able to kill your system, by deleting system components, generally modifiable only by using sudo." GerbilSoft adds: "Among the programs that it sets as setuid-root are OpenOffice, xsane, and xscanimage."

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  1. Samsung security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Burbage dies on pg. 12
    Hedwig dies on pg. 56
    Mad-Eye dies on pg. 78
    Scrimgeour dies on pg. 159
    Wormtail dies on pg. 471
    Dobby dies on pg. 476
    Snape dies on pg. 658
    Fred Weasley dies on pg. 637

    Harry gets fucked up by Voldemort on pg. 704 but comes back to life on pg. 724

    Tonks, Lupin, and Colin Creevy have their deaths confirmed on pg. 743

    19 years after the events in the book:

    Ron has married Hermione, their two children are named Rose and Hugo

    Harry has married Ginny, their three children are named Lily, James, and Albus Severus.

    Draco Malfoy has a son named Scorpius

      The epilogue shows all of the children boarding the train for Hogwarts together.

    The final lines of the book are: "The scar had not pained Harry for 18 years. All was well."

    Plot Spoilers
    Part of Voldemort's soul was implanted into Harry whenever he used Ara Kadvara on him when he was a baby. Harry then sacrafices himself a la Lilly Potter style, which allows him to kill Voldemort without killing himself. He also has hacks (stone to bring him back to life, and an uber wand).

      Snape went to the good side (Hogwarts, etc.) because he was all emo that Voldemort killed Lilly Potter.

    Harry has three kids with Ginny. Ron and Hermoine fall in love.

  2. Re:Thank you! by mwvdlee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The you are the welcome.

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  3. Re:Let me be the first to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It would be "quoi la baise", as in French "fuck" is a female word :)

    Anyway, you could hear that (such literal american translation) only in Quebec, the French equivalent would be more along the lines of "Putain de merde" or from younger folks "Putain de sa mere" ;)