Somehow I doubt that there will ever be a fully reproducable exploit on this, unless it is under extremely controlled conditions that would not occur in a production environment. That being said, the flaw exists, and should be removed. If the distro vendors want to get security ratings for their product, then they should give some spare cycles for it. Why is it up to Linus?
Couple that with the miniT extension which allows you to drag and organize tabs, and you've got way more functionality than just digging through 20 items on the taskbar.
Thanks for the computer lesson there. Seriously, are you that stupid? Do you have to hit the keys in between breaths, just so you can remember to breathe?
There are many types of files which are run out of context on Windows. As an example, a PIF file. A PIF file should have no executable code in it, yet you can put it in there, and windows will execute it. There is no rational reason to have executable code in there. Same goes for batch files.
Microsoft took the idea of magic numbers, and in true Microsoft fashion, fucked it up. They know it's fucked up, and they refuse to fix it. Ten years later, we are plagued by the same stupid mistakes, the same faulty design, because Microsoft refuses to fix its mistakes. And they're not that hard to fix. A simple thing like removing the ability to compile an icon into an executable would go a very long way.
We have some bright sparks that set their pvr to record, automatically upload and torrent the file, and the rest of us don't have to set up all the esosteric hardware. We just have to subscribe to an rss feed and watch whatever we want, whenever we want, wherever we want.
Right now, I'm running a via-1000 mb with Freevo, and no tuner card. Plug it right into the tv, set up NFS and SMB shares to my fileserver and just wach TV.
But it doesn't use them correctly. It also uses extensions to characterize which type of file it is, which makes it really easy to trick the system into executing items when they shouldn't be executed.
When the operating system can't tell the diffence between a batch file and an executable, a program information file, yadda yadda, then I'd say that it was a flaw of the OS.
Personally, if that was the upper limit of the punishment, I'd go for the caning over three years in prison. Hell, I'd set up weekly appointments for canings just so I can keep torrenting. (yes, I just verbed that word. Grammar Nazis ho!)
Microsoft keeps a history of your surfing practices and e-mail which can be parsed by a virus anyways. Who cares if a virus can't get to the addressbook, it can parse these files and get enough addresses to send itself to.
I had thought that any major changes were held off until the devel branch had started. I guess that trusted computing isn't as big of a deal as I thought it would be. Maybe that's a good sign.
As for the non-existance of the 2.7 tree, that's what I thought, hence the question. After reading it again, I guess it was a little ambiguous.
It should prompt you to turn it on only after the initial bootup and default to no. Aside from that, it should be mandated to be in the off condition until an administrator turns it on. Finally, it shold send it to a central server of the organizations choosing, and then the administrator can remove/alter the files, and send only corporate approved ones.
So his mom states that he was careless with chemicals, everyone else figures that he committed suicide, and a brilliant scientist and mathemetician is so hapless with chemicals that he coats his lunch with cyanide?
I would hardly say 'undenyable, irrevocable, absolute proof that he did commit suicide', but Occam's Razor most likely applies here.
From Wikipedia: Prosecution of Turing for his homosexuality crippled his career. In 1952, his male lover helped an accomplice to break into Turing's house and commit larceny. Turing went to the police to report the crime. As a result of the police investigation, Turing was said to have had a sexual relationship with a 19-year-old man, and charged with "gross indecency and sexual perversion." He unapologetically offered no defence, and was convicted. Following the well-publicised trial, he was given a choice between incarceration and libido-reducing hormonal treatment. He chose the oestrogen hormone injections, which lasted for a year, with side effects including the development of breasts.
In 1954, he died of cyanide poisoning, apparently from a cyanide-laced apple he left half-eaten. Most believe that his death was intentional, and the death was ruled a suicide. His mother, however, strenuously argued that the ingestion was accidental due to his careless storage of laboratory chemicals. Friends of his have said that Turing may have killed himself in this ambiguous way quite deliberately, to give his mother some plausible deniability. --- So, sadly, it was not self-persecution, but societal persecution. He did commit suicide, which could be considered self-persecution, but that was the end result, not the entire act.
Given the track record of how you treat Mexican immigrants, I'm sure they're chomping at the bit to give up their boring work in robotics for the fabulous lifestyle of agricultural mule.
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Just paint "Don't Panic" on the back.
Somehow I doubt that there will ever be a fully reproducable exploit on this, unless it is under extremely controlled conditions that would not occur in a production environment. That being said, the flaw exists, and should be removed. If the distro vendors want to get security ratings for their product, then they should give some spare cycles for it. Why is it up to Linus?
They don't have to. They just have to make it easy enough that everybody uses it. After that, who cares about a 1% piracy rate.
Good Job! You sir, are the absolute marvel of technology! However on earth did you pull this miracle off?
Couple that with the miniT extension which allows you to drag and organize tabs, and you've got way more functionality than just digging through 20 items on the taskbar.
Thanks for the computer lesson there. Seriously, are you that stupid? Do you have to hit the keys in between breaths, just so you can remember to breathe?
There are many types of files which are run out of context on Windows. As an example, a PIF file. A PIF file should have no executable code in it, yet you can put it in there, and windows will execute it. There is no rational reason to have executable code in there. Same goes for batch files.
Microsoft took the idea of magic numbers, and in true Microsoft fashion, fucked it up. They know it's fucked up, and they refuse to fix it. Ten years later, we are plagued by the same stupid mistakes, the same faulty design, because Microsoft refuses to fix its mistakes. And they're not that hard to fix. A simple thing like removing the ability to compile an icon into an executable would go a very long way.
And oh, by the way, go fuck yourself.
We have some bright sparks that set their pvr to record, automatically upload and torrent the file, and the rest of us don't have to set up all the esosteric hardware. We just have to subscribe to an rss feed and watch whatever we want, whenever we want, wherever we want.
Right now, I'm running a via-1000 mb with Freevo, and no tuner card. Plug it right into the tv, set up NFS and SMB shares to my fileserver and just wach TV.
I think that you'd have to wrap more than just your testicles, otherwise Chernobyl fall off!
But it doesn't use them correctly. It also uses extensions to characterize which type of file it is, which makes it really easy to trick the system into executing items when they shouldn't be executed.
It's a bad design.
When the operating system can't tell the diffence between a batch file and an executable, a program information file, yadda yadda, then I'd say that it was a flaw of the OS.
Don't expect that too soon. Borland has been trumpeting their cross-platform toolkit for a long time, and this can be considered competition.
Skype is dying.
Any time he speaks up about technology that will revolutionize things, he seems to be horribly wrong, with horrible, and predictable results.
Maybe he could endorse the Corvair or something.
Don't worry, Slashdot's taken care of that for you.
Personally, if that was the upper limit of the punishment, I'd go for the caning over three years in prison. Hell, I'd set up weekly appointments for canings just so I can keep torrenting. (yes, I just verbed that word. Grammar Nazis ho!)
rewrite TCP/IP? Embrace and extend it, so that we can have a safe, trusted internet?
Microsoft keeps a history of your surfing practices and e-mail which can be parsed by a virus anyways. Who cares if a virus can't get to the addressbook, it can parse these files and get enough addresses to send itself to.
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I had thought that any major changes were held off until the devel branch had started. I guess that trusted computing isn't as big of a deal as I thought it would be. Maybe that's a good sign.
As for the non-existance of the 2.7 tree, that's what I thought, hence the question. After reading it again, I guess it was a little ambiguous.
Are they backporting from the 2.7 tree? I know that SE linux has been around for a while, but why the sudden interest by the kernel maintainers?
Oh sure, you can shut it off, for now.
It should prompt you to turn it on only after the initial bootup and default to no. Aside from that, it should be mandated to be in the off condition until an administrator turns it on. Finally, it shold send it to a central server of the organizations choosing, and then the administrator can remove/alter the files, and send only corporate approved ones.
So his mom states that he was careless with chemicals, everyone else figures that he committed suicide, and a brilliant scientist and mathemetician is so hapless with chemicals that he coats his lunch with cyanide?
I would hardly say 'undenyable, irrevocable, absolute proof that he did commit suicide', but Occam's Razor most likely applies here.
Sadly, no.
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From Wikipedia
Prosecution of Turing for his homosexuality crippled his career. In 1952, his male lover helped an accomplice to break into Turing's house and commit larceny. Turing went to the police to report the crime. As a result of the police investigation, Turing was said to have had a sexual relationship with a 19-year-old man, and charged with "gross indecency and sexual perversion." He unapologetically offered no defence, and was convicted. Following the well-publicised trial, he was given a choice between incarceration and libido-reducing hormonal treatment. He chose the oestrogen hormone injections, which lasted for a year, with side effects including the development of breasts.
In 1954, he died of cyanide poisoning, apparently from a cyanide-laced apple he left half-eaten. Most believe that his death was intentional, and the death was ruled a suicide. His mother, however, strenuously argued that the ingestion was accidental due to his careless storage of laboratory chemicals. Friends of his have said that Turing may have killed himself in this ambiguous way quite deliberately, to give his mother some plausible deniability.
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So, sadly, it was not self-persecution, but societal persecution. He did commit suicide, which could be considered self-persecution, but that was the end result, not the entire act.
That was Turing. And that's why he ended his life, to end his persecution over that fact.
*Taken from "Uncle John plunges into history again" from the bathroom reader segment, specifically Turing's work on the Enigma machine.
And the corporate phone I call 911 on has a much better uptime than my MS Box.
Let them provide essential services over the internet, let them make money on it, and let them get sued if they fail.
Given the track record of how you treat Mexican immigrants, I'm sure they're chomping at the bit to give up their boring work in robotics for the fabulous lifestyle of agricultural mule.
And I once had a front caliper lock up solid twenty miles after getting my brakes checked. You run into incompetence even in a regulated industry.