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Security Vulnerability Bingo
An anonymous reader writes "Ben Bitdiddle of MIT fame sends an open letter to system administrators encouraging them to stop patching their systems so they can play 'Security Vulnerability Bingo.'"
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Shame it's such a blatant advertisement.
Bingo!
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher.
I administer an online bingo site and just had a panicky moment whilst reading that headline. "Security, Bingo? Erk!"
Regards, Phil
the first person to get bingo, will be terminated.
That is all...
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
But it seems that more than half of the security posts here are just advertisements. I think that putting them in 'Idle' is a helpful change. Maybe they should look at doing this more often with some of their articles or main posts.
If it really doesn't give us useful information other than " The sky is falling , the sky is falling...." and ends with buy this product, shouldn't it just be labeled advertisement.
The only chance of this being useful is if it creates a meaningful discussion. So I doubt it will have much use.
Wow, There not even trying to hide that it's an advertisment.
However, this could be a fun game if not for those pesky script kiddies
I discovered this security hole years ago at our volunteer fire dept. hall.
I used to call out BINGO without actually having bingo, and at least one time in ten they gave me the prize without even checking my board.
This space available.
Gosh, I remember half of these from the 2.6.28 days. You're not still running that, are you? Dear, dear me.
I can't get the page to load. Their servers must be pretty weak if they can be slashdotted by an idle story with 11 comments (as of this writing).
While not a security vulnerability per se, I think we should get a door prize for reducing their server to ruble.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
What a boring webpage that was.
Bingo is associated, at least with me, with an older crowd set. For the more youthful who would enjoy a faster developing game try setting up multiple dhcp servers in the same address range. It would ne the equivalent of Texas holdem.
Entertainment is the only reason I can think of why a sys admin at a clients chooses to set them up that way. Well maybe it is closer to beer pong and the guy is just an idiot...
*DrugCheese rants*
Sure, it's fine if they stop patching their systems. Just so long as they keep patching the systems that belong to their employers before they decide to screw around.
For your security, this post has been encrypted with ROT-13, twice.
Bingodverising.
to code or not to code, that is the question.