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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
From the department of self-fulfilling prophecies
OK, so a little funny news, brought to my attention by Tim.
(It's a programmer thing. Feel free to ignore this one. I'll be back to talking about politicians you've never heard of shortly.)
From vnunet: Linux worm turns on Mambo and PHP
Security experts today warned of a Linux network worm that exploits holes in the Mambo content management system and the PHP XML-RPC library.Unfortunately when you mix something as flexible as XML-RPC with something as half-arsed as the PHP security model, something like this is bound to happen. "The main component of the Mare.D worm is written in C and compiled with the GNU C compiler," said F-Secure researcher Gergely Erdelyi.If it's a PHP/XML-RPC worm, should it not be written in PHP? It just goes to show: if you want to do anything really interesting in PHP you have to write it in C and link it in. posted by Michael at 2/21/2006 05:41:00 PM 0 comments |
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Saying what everyone is thinking
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The great Alan Dershowitz at the Huffington Post points out the inevitable. Cheney is too clever with the media to delay talking to the police for 14 hours for no good reason. 'Cost-benefit analysis' is exactly it.
This story has legs. Personally I still stand by my prediction that it's Joetime.
posted by Michael at 2/16/2006 02:39:00 AM 0 comments |