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Disney sitcom says open source is insecure
- andrewfelix 14y agoIronically some Disney animation studios have switched to Linux/Wine to avoid paying Windows licensing fees.
- activepeanut 14y agoThey also believe in Open Source: http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/opensource.html http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/opensource.html
- pervycreeper 14y agoNot to mention Panda 3D. On another note, time for a code audit, I guess!
- s_henry_paulson 14y agoNever attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. How tech savvy do you expect the writers of a Disney kids show to be? Incomprehensible technobabble permeates television and movies, but only when these people accidentally make a sentence that works, is it news.
- ralmeida 14y agoThis. Once an episode of Criminal Minds had a criminal whose IP started with 300-something. That would be immediately corrected if the writing was minimally revised by an specific consultant, which suggests it wasn't. So I'm going with s_henry_paulson and the Hanlon's Razor on this one. On a side note, isn't the term "freetard" extremely pejorative?
- CrLf 14y agoThat's probably not an error. It's like phone numbers starting with 555, so that it isn't accidentally someones' phone.
- ralmeida 14y agoThat seems a little overzealous for an IP, but indeed I hadn't considered this possibility.
- bradleyland 14y agoIt seems overzealous, until you're the one whose IP has been published in a mainstream media outlet, resulting in bored crackers probing around to see what's there. In an age where television shows regularly incorporate "real world" tie-ins and easter eggs, it makes perfect sense to use an invalid IP address to save everyone some trouble. Not to mention, if someone were really attacked as a result of their IP address being randomly used on some television show, the lawsuit that follows would be unwelcome.
- taybin 14y agoThere are IP ranges reserved for that, much like example.com.
- upthedale 14y ago> On a side note, isn't the term "freetard" extremely pejorative? This is The Register we're talking about. I see it as no coincidence that it has a red banner, it is a "Red Top" of tech journalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tops#Red_top http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tops#Red_top
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- noahc 14y agoWoundn't it actually make sense that a consultant would recommend using the 555 equivelant for an ip addresses since anyone could try to attack it after watching the movie.
- ibotty 14y agoit is not necessarily malice. but it tells how certain propaganda pays off. (remember microsofts anti-linux campaign?)
- brudgers 14y agoWas it before or after Linux's anti-Microsoft campaign?
- icebraining 14y agoLinux is just a kernel development project, it never had advocacy campaigns.
- mseepgood 14y agoShe should have used Free (as in freedom) Software instead.
- Tichy 14y ago"Disney-owned Pixar recently released some of its production code under an open source licence." Then I guess now we know why...
- nivla 14y agoHeck you don't even need to go that far. Just look up the headers to disney.com, they use Apache!!
- darkxanthos 14y agoTake a breath, it's gonna be ok. Not news.
- m0skit0 14y agoThat really was a NOOBS mistake, Mr. Nerdy Boy.
- jlebrech 14y agothey obfuscate technical information for legal reasons, they couldn't have mentioned the existence of "pirate" software otherwise the kids would be looking for "pirate" games and other type of software from the back of watching the show.
- ibotty 14y agothat is a good explanation. (still wrong to chose that plot though.)
- malsme 14y agoI once instructed someone to download Open Office and he downloaded an unofficial version that I guess appeared first on the search engine. It was bundled with a not-so-nice toolbar, so these things do happen.
- icebraining 14y agoIt's hardly a problem specific to FOSS, though.
- phaikawl 14y agoLOL, even a fool could figure out that putting malware in open source software doesn't make sense. The ones who produce the film may be more foolish than a fool. What? Really? LOL
- amirmansour 14y agoThe open source thing aside. What the hell is up with Disney channel shows! They don't make them like they used to anymore. Another reason why I don't watch TV anymore. Life++
- conradfr 14y agoAre you 8 ? (and yes that seems like terrible tv)
- amirmansour 14y agoNo, I'm just comparing them to how they were back when I was 8.
- leephillips 14y agoThere are a crop of current Disney shows that are so awful their creators can not have souls. There are 6 or 10 of these and they are all the same, with the same characters and non-jokes covered by an aggressive laughtrack. They traffic in a kind of nastiness that you might have thought was consigned to the past, like making fun of foreigners. Somehow, however, the same outfit brings us the brilliant Phineas & Ferb.
- rsanchez1 14y agoI find that baffling. Phineas & Ferb deals in actual jokes, and sometimes even innuendo, and doesn't need a laugh track to instruct kids, "Hey! This is funny! Laugh!" Other shows, instead of dealing in innuendo, deal in double entendres, which are already extremely simple and not funny, but they have to make it even worse by making it obvious in the lines the characters deliver. I guess the usual Disney Channel exec took the day off when they green-lit P&F.
- erez 14y agoI'm trying to figure out what's "Open Source code" actually means. Judging from what little is shown at the video, and without watching any of that programme, I think the idea here isn't "open source" as in "Free and Open Source software", but more of "code examples freely available on the net", in the same vein of someone copying information about a book from the Internet for school and gets an F with a "No, Lurch and Uncle Fester were not characters in David Copperfield." That is not a jab at open source. I don't know how a virus could be inserted in a code snippet copy/pasted from the web, but I guess that's what the scene refers to.
- rsanchez1 14y agoIt really was a rookie mistake. Anyone could've seen the virus, IT'S OPEN SOURCE.