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B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking'

Posted by timothy on from the I-miss-borders dept.

New accepted submitter super_rancid writes that issue 154 of the "UK-based Linux Format magazine was pulled from Barnes and Noble bookstores in the U.S. after featuring an article called 'Learn to Hack'. They used 'hack' in the populist security sense, rather than the traditional sense, and the feature — which they put online — was used to illustrate how poor your server's security is likely to be by breaking into it."

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  1. US$300M effect? by jbernardo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Could it be that the buyout of B&N by Microsoft has produced the first victim?

    Or just a "unfortunate coincidence" that the magazine censured over a word is a Linux magazine?

  2. They prefer that customers buy by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 3, Interesting

    less dangerous reading material that has hurt no one.

  3. Re:Good for them! by phrostie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    since they still sell 2600 it'smore likely it has something do do with this:

    http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/04/30/1359214/microsoft-invests-300-million-in-nook-e-readers

    big surprise

  4. Re:Populist security sense? by lister+king+of+smeg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    they screwed up the meaning not us, why should we come up with a new term because they are computer illiterate.

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    ---Saying gnome 3 is better than windows 8 not so much a compliment as it is damning with light praise.