SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Linux Mint terrorist Samata Ullah has been jailed for eight years by Cardiff Crown Court.
Ullah, as we reported on Friday, was caught with, among other things, a USB cufflink loaded with a copy of the Linux distro.
The former insurance worker pleaded guilty to five terrorism charges, including being a member of Islamic State and two charges of possessing terrorist material.
Vice's Motherboard offshoot had a look round his "basic Wordpress" blog aimed at promoting Islamic State propaganda. They noted that police investigators seized more than 6.1 terabytes of data from his Cardiff home.
Pronunciation tip: the 'll' in 'Ullah' is a voiceless lateral fricative.
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 28 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash
Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday May 04 2017, @03:00PM (3 children)
I like how your only link given as evidence doesn't even mention Mint. Try again. This PowerPoint is about Ubuntu (which admittedly is upstream from Mint, but still).
So let's rewrite everything in Rust or other memory
safe languages?
Heh. I recall arguments about this before around here.
At least you picked a decent-looking source. I was expecting to look it up and promptly find this was one of those open source organizations that has Microsoft on its board.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday May 04 2017, @03:03PM (1 child)
This PowerPoint is also very Betteridge-y. I guess it kind of makes sense if it's a presentation aide for talking to a bunch of people at a conference about it, but e.g. your claim that Mint (again not actually the subject of the article) is more insecure than Windows is one of the aforementioned bulletpoints with a question mark.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday May 05 2017, @05:18AM
relevant previous topics:
Mint Cinnamon ISOs Hacked
/article.pl?sid=16/02/21/0517219 [soylentnews.org]
Linux Mint Site is Up Again
/article.pl?sid=16/02/28/0429236 [soylentnews.org]
Why the Linux Mint Hack is an Indicator of a Larger Security Problem
/article.pl?sid=16/02/29/025201 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday May 04 2017, @05:50PM
FWIW, the last time I checked Mint came in two versions, one based around Ubuntu, the other based around Debian. I didn't like it because it was slow compared to either of the distros it was based around and didn't investigate further. This might have been a temporary problem.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.