____/ Sinister Midget on Friday 04 April 2008 07:19 : \____
> On 2008-04-01, The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> claimed:
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ezekiel
>><a@xxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:58:17 -0400
>><47f28860$0$25985$88260bb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>>> No. He said *WOULD* have worked.
>>>
>>>
>>>
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9074102
>>>
>>> ""Shane's [Macauley] exploit ***WOULD*** have worked on Linux. He could
>>> have knocked it over. But [the contestants] get a lot more mileage out of
>>> attacks on the Mac or Windows," she continued."
>>
>> There you are. "Linux is both insecure and not often used"
>> is the implication here.
>>
>> +2 points for Ezekiel, -1 for Jim Richardson for not
>> noticing this obvious trap. ;-)
>>
>> (To be fair, the flaw was in Adobe's Flash player.
>> However, that makes it not Microsoft's problem, but Linux's
>> fault, according to the standard logic around here.)
>>
>> I concur with you, however; the exploit would have easily
>> worked, allowing a hacker to gain user-level access.
>
> And /you/ fell for that trap.
>
> Who is quoting whom? If you read the entire paragraaph it shows that
> being a quote of a person named Forslof. Forslof isn't the author of
> the exploit. I know what the article says about her, but not knowing
> her credentials I can't be sure she's expressing more than an opinion.
> The title whe isn't a surety that she knows what she's pretending to
> know in this instance.
>
> In any event, the person who exploited Winders, Shane Macaulay, did
> *not* utter the words of certainty, as Erik's tap-dance is supposed to
> have us believe. Instead, he's hearing
>
> HIS MASTER'S VOICE
> ()._
> _.--. (##)_`-. "LINUX WOULD BE EXPLOITED BY THE
> / . ``u (##), ` `. SAME BUG"
> \__) _/ (##),--. \
> | --' ()' \ \ "WE SOLD MORE COPIES OF VISTA
> / | | | THAN THERE ARE PEOPLE ON EARTH"
> ,' \ _,' /
> ,' | ,;--// "WINDOWS IS CHEAPER THAN LINUX"
> / ___\ |/ ___V__{(_
> | ' \| || ,'-===- `,'| "SECURITY IS BINARY"
> __| ,' /| || |""""""""|-L|
> ,`__. < _)))_))) |________|,'
> gnv (,' ool
Microsoft views us all as dogs? I thought Bill Gates said we were spidermonkeys
(or have, on average, the brain capacity of one). Oh, wait...
"We will never make a 32-bit operating system."
-- Bill Gates, At the launch of MSX
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