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Invented by OpenBSD(tedunangst.com)
212 points by glass- 12y ago|93 comments
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by glass- 12y ago
You can get killed as the result of a race condition[0] so privilege escalation is certainly possible. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
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by glass- 12y ago
Here's an image of the last revision before it was deleted: https://i.imgur.com/mlip1D9.png
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by glass- 12y ago
You modify LocalSettings.php which creates a derivation of MediaWiki, or as the GPL puts it, "thus forming a work based on the Program". At this point you don't have to share the changes. However, once you distribute the Java
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by glass- 12y ago
The GPL has some fun semantics. Take MediaWiki, it is GPL licensed (not AGPL), so you can modify it and run an instance of it without sharing your changes. Except, when someone accesses it, you are redistributing MediaWiki's GPL-licens
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Improving browser security(marc.info)
16 points by glass- 12y ago|0 comments
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by glass- 12y ago
GCC is a technically inferior compiler that has been deliberately neutered to enforce its license. When software has technical limitations to enforce its license that is DRM, ergo GCC is defective by design.
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Authenticated TLS 'constraints' in ntpd(8)(undeadly.org)
11 points by glass- 12y ago|0 comments
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Heartbleed in Rust(tedunangst.com)
245 points by glass- 12y ago|134 comments
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by glass- 12y ago
And knowing that someone is pregnant is extremely valuable to advertisers[0] [0] http://mashable.com/2014/04/26/big-data-pregnancy/
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by glass- 12y ago
Nokia also owned the hardware but Symbian updates were carrier approved. Microsoft owns the hardware but Windows Phone updates are carrier approved. BlackBerry owns the hardware but Blackberry OS updates are carrier approved.
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by glass- 12y ago
Can you please provide the demonstrable truth that Apple gets carrier approval for their updates (which are released simultaneously worldwide, sometimes new updates go out mere days apart, which is definitely not enough time for every carri
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by glass- 12y ago
And millions of customers stormed shops? Which is the rationale that is provided for carriers taking months to approve updates for everyone but Apple.
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by glass- 12y ago
When an iPhone update is released, the update becomes available worldwide for everyone. There is no delay waiting for individual carriers to approve the update, like there is with Android and Windows Phone.
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by glass- 12y ago
> compared to millions of customers storming your shops and demanding refunds And yet somehow Apple is able to push updates without carrier approval and this doesn't happen.
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by glass- 12y ago
> I had expected the OpenBSD crowd to be out in force talking up the operating system but they've been surprisingly subdued The OpenBSD motto is "shut up and hack". Look at the work that is being done recently with libress
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by glass- 12y ago
The people missing the point/satire of this comment are actually airline shills terrified that their secret has just been discovered.
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by glass- 12y ago
> If you're not using it for cryptographic purposes, then I don't see why it matters. :) There was a program I was using that used libtommath, and used that library's mp_rand function. libtommath's mp_rand does variou
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Violating randomization standards(marc.info)
7 points by glass- 12y ago|0 comments
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by glass- 12y ago
I have been with Fastmail for a few years now and I don't think I have ever used the rich text editor, only plain text. I wonder how common that is.
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by glass- 12y ago
You have never heard of "Learn Python the Hard Way", the Mongrel server or "Rails is a Ghetto"?
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by glass- 12y ago
> I thought Linux drivers are all under GPL. Nope, in fact some of Linux's drivers are licensed with the old-style BSD license with the advertising clause: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=%22adve
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by glass- 12y ago
> What prompted them to harass her? She was a woman on the internet. That's all the reason they need.
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by glass- 12y ago
> I don't understand why randy would focus on making tools for blocking people on Twitter though She received over 20k mentions in one month, mostly insults and attacks. Trying to actually talk to people while having to filter throu
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by glass- 12y ago
People published her info online, she received phone calls to her house, they called her employer and got her fired, her emails were hacked and posted online. Just recently she tweeted that she was called into a meeting at her current job b
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by glass- 12y ago
Do you know of anyone with a signify (or reop) key tattoo yet?
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by glass- 12y ago
Mozilla is planning/testing TLS without certs with HTTP/2.0 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2014-10-14#Necko_.28dougt....
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by glass- 12y ago
> First, Firefox (and some others) are forcing TLS to use HTTP/2 : https://wiki.mozilla.org/Networking/http2 ; that's a big deal breaker for a lot of people. Yes, encryption is all well and good. I'll
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by glass- 12y ago
If you read the whole thread Linus was wrong. He was constantly confusing two different bugs (despite Alan pointing this out to him multiple times), and the fixes he was yelling at Alan for not applying would have caused other things to bre
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by glass- 12y ago
> am i the only one that thinks this is a total non-issue? OpenBSD's slogan boasts that there have only ever been "two remote holes in the default install", one of those holes would have been prevented by this.

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