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Backdoor Found In UnrealIRCd Source Archive
l_bratch writes "A malicious backdoor was added to the UnrealIRCd source archive some time around November 2009. It was not noticed for several months, so many IRC servers are likely to be compromised. A Metasploit exploit already exists."
From TFA "The Windows (SSL and non-ssl) versions are NOT affected."
Cool, you dont get to see this too often when windows version is safer than a linux one!
It could be worse... You could be the guy at Microsoft that was ordered to write this exploit and then insert it into the codebase without getting caught.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
May I remind you that the Windows binaries are unaffected?
Seriously, that's what you call unchecked paranoia. Nobody is ordering Microsoft grunts to sabotage open source software. They do that in their free time for fun.
You're in the wrong article. The one about autism is a few further down the front page. In this one, you're supposed to have a sense of humour or, if you're American, a sense of humor.
That's it, I'm headed to the autism article to make a joke. Wapner, here I come!
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Wow. Why the fuck would you use such a shit operating system that can fail so massively? That kind of shit never happens on OS X or Windows.
You must be some kind of computing masochist.