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Security Flaw Hits VAserv; Head of LxLabs Found Hanged
Keldrin_1 writes "The discovery of 24 security vulnerabilities may have contributed to the death of the chief of LxLabs. A flaw in the company's HyperVM software allowed data on 100,000 sites, all hosted by VAserv, to be destroyed. The HyperVM solution is popular with cheap web hosting services and the attacks are easy to reproduce, which could lead to further incidents."
For those of you that claim that the disclosure of vulnerabilities when there is no vendor fix leads to more secure software - I say bullshit.
From the article -
[i]Milw0rm went public with an alert on the vulnerability last Thursday after failing to hear back from LxLabs in what it considered to be a timely manner.[/i]
What exactly IS a timely manner? Bottom line - milw0rm wanted their 'props', and now a man is dead because of it. milw0rm has NO interest in secure software.
While suicide should never be celebrated, there's a certain honor in doing it as a result of professional failure.
As opposed to you know, screwing the company over, taking a huge bonus, and running to the Bahamas (*cough* AIG, Bank of America, Chase, GM, WaMu *cough*)
-- Political fascism requires a Fuhrer.
I guess he took the Six Sigma "black belt" literally.
Yeah, I feel guilty for that one.
Now if we could get all those Indian telemarketers and support people to do the same.
Are you saying that the GP is WORSE THAN HITLER?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
That's what you get for buying shoddy rubbish churned out in a sweat shop by darkies. Stick to what is best, white-man's work.
Your brother founded VMWare?
Was he in a closet? Was it wrapped around his neck and genitals which was later covered up with the phrase "his body"?
I think I see a serial killer starting to emerge.
Fuck you with a printout of the internet
That can be traumatic, but not as traumatic as finding him hanged.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
Instead of fixing problems, this guy was just hanging around.
Oblig bad pun:
He shouldn't have gotten so hung up about it.
Frink: Nice try floyd, but you were designed for scrubbing, and scrubbing is what you shall do.
I personnaly found my brother hung in his bedroom 10 years ago
And then you compared cock sizes and yours was less than half his size? It is tragic to find out you are hung like a toddler.
Killing yourself pretty much removes your right to a lot of sympathy. Lot of people are talking about "honor" like killing yourself is the honorable way out, but really it's not. The honorable way out is working in the ruins to try and rectify your mistakes, not quitting when the road gets hard.
No, this was in fact the honorable way out.
Vaserv's business is ruined. Countless others are ducking and covering. He did the honorable thing, and I can't hold any malice against him now. But neither do I weep.
If only we can get the CEO's of Bear Stearns and Lehman brothers to have this kind of integrity.
Yes, it's called "Getting Laid on a Regular Basis".
Tends to wipe that depression and self-destructive instinct right out of you.