Here is my thumb drive. It’s called $(:(){:|:&};:)
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Modern computing is faster, more secure, and *presses finger to ear* Wait, I’m hearing that if you name your thumb drive properly, you can execute arbitrary code on Linux. Shut it down. https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20180208-2.txt …pic.twitter.com/0w538vUpJA
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This tweet is misleading. This is not a problem with Linux (kernel), but with a specific component of a specific desktop environment (specifically, Plasma, a component of KDE). If you run Gnome, Unity, etc., you're not affected by this issue.
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Oh no... I turned up for systemd/udev bashing and I get this? :-(
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Life's full of disappointments.
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I was informed Linus screaming at people was why Linux is better than everything else. Was I misinformed?
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Yes, because this has nothing to do with the kernel?
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Relabeling my thumb drives “$(/bin/rm -rf)” to free up a lot of disk space...
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to be fair, nobody actually uses KDE these days.
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This is why we can't have $(nice cat /etc/passwd) things.
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I'd like to pitch in with "$(rm -rf
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Again? Something similar happened 10 years ago. That time it was a buffer overflow on the length on the drive name.
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according to Gödel's incompleteness theorems, because Linux computers are meant to execute Turing-complete code, computer security is classically impossible.
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Hahahaha... oh shit.
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that just affects KDE, which is rarely used. just saying
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yeah.... that's .... not good! I see script stuff trying to come in on my web server all the time, and if I didn't have my own stupid state machine(with context) server and used a known server I'd be (more)worried
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who uses KDE anyway?
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