[svlug] Advisory CA-2003-0401: /dev/null Vulnerability (fwd)

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:48:55AM -0800, Karen Shaeffer (shaeffer at neuralscape.com) wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:04:01AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > > 
> > > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt?number=3514
> > 
> > I thought I might have seen that on Slashdot.  Once or twice.
> > 
> > ...or was it thrice or quatrens?
> > 
> 
> Hello Karsten,
> 
> I wouldn't know about slashdot. That's one oracle I avoid because the signal
> to noise ratio is out of kilter. I saw that on a Linux kernel developer's
> email list; not lkml, but one of the subsystem developer's lists.

Dissecting the frog...

Slashdot has a tendency, and CmdrTaco in particular, to re-run stories
that have already been covered.  Often within a matter of days,
sometimes over longer spans.

In this case, the "joke" was both the story, and the fact that it was
submitted four times.  In one day.  By CmdrTaco.

It's funny.  Laugh.

Myself:  I skim a story or two every few days at 3+.

Peace.

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