[ale] glibc vulnerability
Jim Kinney
jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 15:07:09 EST 2015
On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 13:22 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 00:57 -0500, Steve Nicholas wrote:
> > I can understand another round coming. WTF is below and how does it
> > relate to Linux?? We just had 258 boxes upgraded. Comics are not
> > appreciated.
>
> Guess that leaves me out.
+1
If it weren't for a bit of humor, being an admin would _still_ be a
pretty crappy job even if it's on hundreds or thousands of Linux
systems.
Of course, I wasn't _trying_ to be funny. But that makes it even more of
a joke!
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > Close...
> >
> > On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 08:55 -0500, Jonathan Meek wrote:
> > > The U.S Tax Code is pretty simple:
> > > If you're an individual that makes money, pay taxes.
> >
> > If you're an individual that makes some money, pay taxes.
> > If you makes lots of money, like more each year than most
> > people earn in
> > a lifetime, you win the game and pay very little.
> >
> > > If you're a corporation that makes money, hide it somewhere.
> >
> > If you employ very few people and can't leave town on
> > vacation, you pay
> > taxes and fees on nearly everything.
> > If you employ a large number of people, and they are all in
> > the US, you
> > pay some taxes but get some perks.
> > If you employ large numbers of people you get huge tax breaks
> > especially
> > if you contract with the federal and state governments on
> > projects that
> > used to be done by public service employees.
> > If you have a gigantic number of employees and most used to be
> > in the US
> > but now are in other countries after tax-incentive "right
> > sizing", you
> > get special bonus perks of a designated ear in Congress and a
> > free bank
> > account in the Caymans. You pay very, very little tax money
> > but use the
> > court system like crazy to defend "property" that is owned by
> > a tiny
> > firm in the Caymans that you hid your profits in.
> >
> > > If you're an individual that doesn't make money, then
> > recieve money.
> >
> > If you're an individual that makes very little money, you get
> > some money
> > handed to you so Walmart doesn't have to pay you enough to
> > survive.
> > If you're an individual that makes no money, you probably live
> > in the
> > street or with family and have no access to resources at all
> > since you
> > have no address, or ID, or ability to get either. And you
> > can't vote.
> > >
> > > *ducks for the punch being thrown*
> >
> > +1
> >
> > >
> > > On Jan 31, 2015 11:32 AM, "Michael B. Trausch"
> > <mike at trausch.us>
> > > wrote:
> > > On 01/30/2015 05:26 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hogwash. Where there's a will, there's a probate
> > court.
> > >
> > > Hah, hah. Very funny. :-)
> > >
> > > I've been involved in a few projects lately where
> > it's been
> > > more important to prove workability and robustness
> > than to
> > > have every feature in the world, so I've not been
> > using glibc
> > > much lately. I certainly can't audit it.
> > >
> > > Then again, I cannot audit the Linux kernel, either.
> > >
> > > But, the more code in my system I can read through
> > and audit
> > > for my own personal satisfaction—or any other reason
> > in the
> > > world—the closer I get to the goal of understanding
> > every line
> > > of code in the system.
> > >
> > > I didn't think that was a terribly important thing
> > to be able
> > > to do, but several projects working with
> > microcontrollers have
> > > shown me different. While the world from that
> > perspective is
> > > a very different place, the concepts are the same,
> > and it's
> > > rather liberating when you can point to something
> > and know why
> > > it broke because you have a very clear understanding
> > of your
> > > entire set of code.
> > >
> > > That's something which is impossible on any modern
> > > general-purpose operating system today. I'd almost
> > be willing
> > > to bet that Linux and the U.S. Tax Code are just as
> > complex as
> > > the other one (though at least Linux can be
> > compiled!).
> > >
> > > — Mike
> > >
> > >
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> > --
> > James P. Kinney III
> >
> > Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
> > What you
> > gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog
> > on his
> > own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
> > - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
> >
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James P. Kinney III
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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