For everyone out there eligible to vote in the US today:
If you don't vote, don't bitch!
Yup, no matter how stupid the law or policy! I don't care if the FBI confiscates your mother's computer because they have a tape of you talking about a Microsoft hack! No matter what stupid thing the US government does between now and the next election it obviously doesn't matter to you, so keep your mouth shut!
By not making a choice you give up all rights to complain about the choices made by others for you!
"I did not use the Source Fragment Disclosure Vulnerability, but used an exploit I wrote myself," he said. The exploit is software tool that Mansur developed and then used to gain access to the servers.
"I will not publish the exploit," Mansur said.
"People will start using it, and that's just too dangerous. I was able to log in as service administrator and get full access to the server. I could even kick the administrator."
Mansur logged into the system! He did not just bring attention to the vulnerability to the Admins! Whether or not he did anything harmful doesn't matter -- his actions were still unethical. Sorry Cmdr Taco, but if you consider him a White Hat I'm ashamed to be a user (even if only via a web browser) of a system you Admin.
Sorry, the developer's actions may have been the imediate cause, but an ignorant/lazy SA was the root cause.
There are too many sloppy commercial developers around to assume the ones at your company aren't, so you make/tmp a physical disk -or- Read The Fine Manual for mount_tmpfs and put the size=sz option in the vfstab file.
This may seem a bit harsh, but I've had to cleanup too many systems to have any patience left with this kind of thing.
You can't avaoid the Blame Game with IBM. When you have a problem, their hardware people blame it on the OS, their OS people blame it on the application, and their application people blame it on the hardware....
Been there, done that.
Eventually, you get around to reading the 3-ring binder that your support contract came in and you find out that IBM's various support groups aren't allowed to even be in the same room as each other!
Forgive my lack of enthusiasm, but after working with IBM's LVM on AIX (pronounced aches) I don't see this as anything all that great. Now when Veritas jumps on the bandwagon I'll dance in the streets!
Not bad. My business cards don't have a title, but I usually say Computer Janitor when asked. I've been a UNIX SA for 7 years now and alot of the work involves cleaning up other peoples sh*t...
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If you don't vote, don't bitch!
Yup, no matter how stupid the law or policy! I don't care if the FBI confiscates your mother's computer because they have a tape of you talking about a Microsoft hack! No matter what stupid thing the US government does between now and the next election it obviously doesn't matter to you, so keep your mouth shut!By not making a choice you give up all rights to complain about the choices made by others for you!
When's the last time you read the SAGE Code of Ethics?
Sorry, the developer's actions may have been the imediate cause, but an ignorant/lazy SA was the root cause.
/tmp a physical disk -or- Read The Fine Manual for mount_tmpfs and put the size=sz option in the vfstab file.
There are too many sloppy commercial developers around to assume the ones at your company aren't, so you make
This may seem a bit harsh, but I've had to cleanup too many systems to have any patience left with this kind of thing.
Been there, done that.
Eventually, you get around to reading the 3-ring binder that your support contract came in and you find out that IBM's various support groups aren't allowed to even be in the same room as each other!
Forgive my lack of enthusiasm, but after working with IBM's LVM on AIX (pronounced aches) I don't see this as anything all that great. Now when Veritas jumps on the bandwagon I'll dance in the streets!
In the beginning Man created God;
and in the image of Man
created he him.
--Jethro Tull
I always loved this quote and it just seemed appropriate...
Not bad. My business cards don't have a title, but I usually say Computer Janitor when asked. I've been a UNIX SA for 7 years now and alot of the work involves cleaning up other peoples sh*t...