If Linux has made malware creation easier, it has also made defense against them easier too. For example, a simple SELinux policy change should nix this kind of exploit without forcing the PDF application to not follow the (shitty) standard and refuse to/launch things. Launch all you want, and just see them intercepted by SELinux mandatory access control.
I mean, is yet another Adobe exploit story really that newsworthy? Next you'll post stories on/. index page saying that water is found to be wet as usual.
You're basically saying that a free employment market is evil because it hurts you USAers. How's that different from IBM saying an open source hardware emulator is evil because it hurts its competitive advantages?
If you fail to get employed, whining doesn't help. Capitalism doesn't work the way you think it works.
Well, I seemed to have forgotten that toes can also enjoy the right to involve in this activity. But 10% of a 21-member group is not quite an integer. But that's assuming there *are* ten fingers and ten toes.
BTW: Am I being politically incorrect against community members who have an alternative amount of digits?
Steve Jobs? Rumor says that his RDF has a faintly glowing, aura-like appearance hardly visible to the eyes of us unwashed, barbarian, infidel freetards...;)
Using hosts file to re-route malicious domain is an ugly hack and should never be used. There are more efficient and maintainable firewalling tools. The hosts file should tell facts instead of lies.
To make things worse, each version of IE sucks in its distinctive way.
That's a real pain. I used to do some Web developing part-time and I know that. When I was doing the job I had Firefox as the main testing browser and voila, my site automagicaly looked and worked the same in Firefox, Opera and Chrome/Safari without tweaking the standard-compliant code (extensively validated using W3C's tools). For each version of IE I had to maintain different hacks, test them, and make it couldn't break in the standard-compliant browsers, AND still pass the validation, AND keep the hacks as maintainable as possible.
I learned a lot trying to do it and I was glad I made it. I'm doubly glad that I probably don't have to do it again.
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If Linux has made malware creation easier, it has also made defense against them easier too. For example, a simple SELinux policy change should nix this kind of exploit without forcing the PDF application to not follow the (shitty) standard and refuse to /launch things. Launch all you want, and just see them intercepted by SELinux mandatory access control.
Or if you're feeling geeky, do it in your sandbox. http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/SELinux-Sandbox-for-Untrusted-Programs
I mean, is yet another Adobe exploit story really that newsworthy? Next you'll post stories on /. index page saying that water is found to be wet as usual.
You're basically saying that a free employment market is evil because it hurts you USAers. How's that different from IBM saying an open source hardware emulator is evil because it hurts its competitive advantages?
If you fail to get employed, whining doesn't help. Capitalism doesn't work the way you think it works.
Dung cleaner. Ancient mainframe software maintainer. What's the difference?
Well, I seemed to have forgotten that toes can also enjoy the right to involve in this activity. But 10% of a 21-member group is not quite an integer. But that's assuming there *are* ten fingers and ten toes.
BTW: Am I being politically incorrect against community members who have an alternative amount of digits?
You mean he has 19 fingers?
...is still much better than the idea of government-owned, tax-paid malware.
This is what they've been doing instead of fixing the CSS problems or Idle (or simply removing it.)
T, FTFY.
They say that SVG is an abbreviation of SilVerlight Graphics extension.
You're assuming that impartiality, notability or precision sells in the real world. That one hell of an assumption.
Perhaps, but journalism is politics. Since when does journalism have to have anything to do with this thing called reality?
A course on manipulating Slashdot?
Toxic mushrooms do *not* need Windows to kill you.
"ZOMG FUNGUS!!!!!11"
Srsly, is learning Networking 101 so much more difficult, arduous and benefiting than flirting with weasel words like "my own reality"?
Steve Jobs? Rumor says that his RDF has a faintly glowing, aura-like appearance hardly visible to the eyes of us unwashed, barbarian, infidel freetards... ;)
Well, that's what the ALL-CAPS DISCLAIMER texts are for.
...finally.
Using hosts file to re-route malicious domain is an ugly hack and should never be used. There are more efficient and maintainable firewalling tools. The hosts file should tell facts instead of lies.
Formal verification? Doesn't it all bog down to "Does Not Compute"? ;)
> No ability to view pr0n.
I doubt that.
Those who pray for electric power in the deep blackout shall bring forth the thunderbolts!
Cyber civil war has come before cyberwar.
To make things worse, each version of IE sucks in its distinctive way.
That's a real pain. I used to do some Web developing part-time and I know that. When I was doing the job I had Firefox as the main testing browser and voila, my site automagicaly looked and worked the same in Firefox, Opera and Chrome/Safari without tweaking the standard-compliant code (extensively validated using W3C's tools). For each version of IE I had to maintain different hacks, test them, and make it couldn't break in the standard-compliant browsers, AND still pass the validation, AND keep the hacks as maintainable as possible.
I learned a lot trying to do it and I was glad I made it. I'm doubly glad that I probably don't have to do it again.
That must be quite impressive a pack there.
Don't worry. As soon as it becomes so, it will die from boredom watching TV.