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  1. Re: True, but. on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    No, no, no, you don't go around inventing your own half assed escape function.

    If you use PostgreSQL you escape the strings with the PQescapeStringConn() function from libpq which should be available from Python. With MySQL/MariaDB you use mysql_real_escape_string() from libmysqlclient/libmaria.

    And if you use MSSQL you... Hmm, afaik you actually have to implement your own half-assed escape function there. I don't know if they have any at all (perhaps they have one in their new c# connector, but they don't appear to have any in the OLEDB connector).

  2. Re:In the ass on 'Lazy' Hackers Exploit Microsoft RDP To Install Ransomware (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, saw that, posted via the mobile at that time however and there is no preview there...

  3. Re: Finnish translation on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    You suck terrible at Finnish, that's for sure.

  4. Re: True, but. on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    That is not how you do it. You either properly escape the strings or you use prepared statements. In both cases you can have Scottish names with embedded quotes without any problem what so ever.

  5. Re:Biometrics are not passwords on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    And even as a user-id it fails miserably as seen in TFA

  6. Re:That's funny... on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I never bought into the hype of Apples million to one FaceID rate because how could they get a good random sample size from their employee work force

    In other words FaceID is really, really good at distinguishing between different types of man buns.

  7. Re:In the ass on 'Lazy' Hackers Exploit Microsoft RDP To Install Ransomware (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    But still, letting 3d party full access to your servers/infrastructure must sound off some alarms at even "stupid company"?

    I often face the opposite problem, which is that if the customer would just open a temporary ssh or rdp session then I could quickly fix a problem that they themselves struggle for weeks on end to solve. That or IT departments that refuse to open ports in their FW because they made their decision back in 1975 on which protocols to allow. But then banks/finance is a conservative industry.

  8. Re:V......P.....N on 'Lazy' Hackers Exploit Microsoft RDP To Install Ransomware (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    How else are they going to do get help to close those problems that the nice "Hello I'm calling from Windows" people with Indian accents detected?

  9. In the ass on 'Lazy' Hackers Exploit Microsoft RDP To Install Ransomware (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    [quote]In one case a victim was attacked repeatedly, because of a weak password used by a third-party application that demanded 24-hour administrator access for its support staff[/quote] Why does some companies put up with shit like this and repeatedly?

  10. Re: Microsoft hegemony on Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Unterschleissheim which was the location of their old HQ (and which is what your link talks about) is a city in Bavaria och which Munich is the capital but Scwabing which is the new location of their HQ (since 2016) is a borough of the city of Munich and this is important because LiMUX was a project for the city of Munich and not Bavaria.

  11. Re: Review by Independent Party on About 15 Percent of US Agencies Detected Kaspersky Software on Networks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If only some on had thought about this: https://wiki.debian.org/Reprod... , yes it's not 100% there yet but it's closing.

  12. Re: kapersky is in ur base hacking ur d00ds on About 15 Percent of US Agencies Detected Kaspersky Software on Networks (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    You could replace every ROM function from RAM on the Amiga. That was one of the benefits of the system.

  13. Re:Doesn't this continutally come up for Munich? on Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Of course some one is being paid. The fact that Microsoft moved their German HQ to Munich have of course absolutely nothing to do with the current administrations decision... That and (quoting from https://lwn.net/Articles/73781... which is paywalled):

    by 2013, 15,000 computers had been migrated. In addition, 18,000 LibreOffice templates had been created for documents. Previously, each office had its own templates, but the new ones were shared across the city administration. The mayor who had started the project was "always supporting it", Kirschner said. He continuously backed the team behind Limux.

    That all ended in 2014. The old mayor did not run for reelection, so a new mayor, Dieter Reiter, from the same party was elected. Reiter did not like Limux and was quoted in some articles as being a Microsoft fan. He ran partly on the idea of switching away from Limux.

    From then on, Kirschner said, "Limux was the cause of all evil in Munich". For example, iPhones did not work with the city's infrastructure, which was blamed on Limux though it had nothing to do with the desktop client. A mail server outage was also unfairly blamed on Limux.

    So the switch back to Microsoft is also a political one. It also appears that when performing the switch to Limux the city of Munich also rearranged their entire IT with centralized support etc so how many of the "complaints" that actually comes from Limux or how many that comes from the reorganization is a question.

  14. Re: Microsoft hegemony on Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is no 800 programs. The real story is currently paywalled at lwn.net but the geist of it is that Microsoft just moved their German HQ to Munich and the current mayor of Munich has been pro Microsoft for years.

  15. Re: Only took a year to support Sierra on Audacity 2.2.0 Released · · Score: 2

    That it now has 'full' support does not mean that previous versions had no support. The problems lied in gatekeeper (that all had work arounds btw) so the fix for Sierra is also a fix for High Sierra.

  16. Yeah I'v heard that every time some one install an adblocker, a anonymous donation in the millions is made to Youtube in order to sustain their infrastructure.

  17. Re: Regardless of any warning on Equifax Was Warned (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you should really install that patch you've been avoiding for several months now.

  18. Re:It kinda sucks. on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Well to be honest, DS9 was an old retired Cardassian station that UFP took over. So it was probably meant to look kind of dated.

  19. Re:It kinda sucks. on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I was just surprised that the giant tardigrade didn't simply spore warped out, I mean it spore warped into the USS Glen (that is how they found out about it).

  20. Re:It kinda sucks. on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Devoid? So the captain, the security chief, the head scientist guy and a few others don't count eh?

  21. Re:It kinda sucks. on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate Discovery as much as any one else but there is nothing gratuitous or sjw in it at all. So far we have seen what appears to be two males in a relationship but we don't even know if they are human (they are both wearing black contacts) so for all we know they could be some single sex species. And they are by far not the first gay characters in Star Trek.

  22. Re:Improving? on Targeted Fuzzing Is Improving Linux Security, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    You just ignored the part from TFA where the improving part was that there where so many CVE's found and fixed due to the fuzzing?

  23. Re:Apple is improving linux security on Targeted Fuzzing Is Improving Linux Security, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    Actually the kernel in Darwin (XNU) contains things from both Mach and 4.3BSD.

  24. Re: Usual non-info + lies on Kaspersky Lab Finds Flash Vulnerability Through Microsoft Word (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    The vendor of course here refers to Adobe and not Kaspersky.

  25. Re: Usual non-info + lies on Kaspersky Lab Finds Flash Vulnerability Through Microsoft Word (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Unknown means unknown to the public and the vendor.