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

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."

Comments

Of Course they did!

[CajunArson]

B&N simply cares about not allowing FUD to be sold in its stores! The banned article is obviously M$ sponsored FUD because it says that Linux boxes can be hacked, which all of us Slashdot users know is physically impossible because of the OSRGF (Open Source Reality Generation Field). I mean it's simple physics: somebody could read the Open Source code and find bugs. Multiple universes exist where all bugs are found. Therefore, all bugs are found, fixed, and patched automatically, making it impossible to hack Linux. Watch some more Star Trek and learn your physics people!

I applaud B&N for taking a stand against the spread of M$ sponsored FUD like this.