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There's a minor media dust-up over which is worse, Open-source vulnerabilities, or Poor Enterprise IT Security?
On Tuesday, 15 May, ZDNet quoted from a Black Duck study and opined that the problem was the "Open-source vulnerabilities", posting an article entitled Open-source vulnerabilities plague enterprise codebase systems.
Vulnerabilities including the bug reportedly responsible for Equifax's data breach are still common elements of open-source systems used in the enterprise... the nature of open-source projects means that as developers are giving away their time for free, sometimes, bugs may escape the net and cause chaos...
Wednesday, May 16th, TechRepublic answered with Enterprise IT shouldn't blame open source for their own poor security practices:
Even if we set aside the fact that Black Duck sells tools and services to root open source out of your enterprise... Open source vulnerabilities will often get disclosed earlier than those in managed software [and] its up to IT to apply the patches.
In other words, open source developers are doing their best to write good software, publish notices when bugs are found, and then fix those bugs. What the open source world cannot do, however, is fix inept IT practices. Despite the headlines, it's not the open source world's problem that so many want to use the software but can't be bothered to apply updates.
Is the problem more one, or the other, or both? Or is it the insistence on calling free software "Open Source," referring to just one freedom of many?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 17 2018, @09:11PM (2 children)
Kinda like asking which is larger, blue or potatoes.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 17 2018, @09:44PM (1 child)
Something was amiss. The building's external appearance was that of an ordinary preschool, yes, but something about it was off. That "something" might have been the event that was taking place inside the building. It was a truly grand event, but only by investigating further could one determine what sort of event it was.
There was a group of ten men, and several preschool teachers confronting them. It appeared as though the teachers were pleading with the men, who all had menacing scowls on their faces. One could instantly tell that the men were unhappy about what the females were saying to them. No, they were furious. What was happening?
The men's rights were being indiscriminately violated. You see, the men decided to host a Men's Rights Extravaganza in the preschool, and these teachers - these sows - were attempting to stand against them. As a result, the men viciously smashed the teachers' faces in until their motion was gone. They had emerged victorious over evil.
Even after those insects were exterminated, the men's frowns remained yet still; their fundamental rights had been violated, after all, and it would take some time to recover. However, the men knew they couldn't let evil win by allowing it to dictate their lives, so they decided to carry on with their event. Yes, they would carry on to thoroughly enjoy the delicacies that the preschool had to offer; all 105 of them.
The first step was to barricade all the exits so that none could escape. The second step was to gather all of the toys in the largest room in the school. The third step was for the men to enjoy themselves. Oh, yes, they would enjoy themselves, but in different ways. You see, the men - who were all friends - each had their own preferences and methods of entertainment.
One of the men enjoyed violating the children face-to-face while slowly twisting their tiny necks until they snapped. He did this very, very slowly, so as to inflict the greatest amount of terror and suffering possible. But before their necks snapped, he ensured that the children saw his orgasm face, which was absolutely terrifying.
There was another man who had gathered a group of children - no, toys - and forced them to vote on who the man would play with next, effectively turning them against one another. Naturally, refusing to comply with the game would result in an excruciatingly painful punishment. One by one, the man violated and beat the children until they were silent.
Then there was another man, whose name was Youngson. Among all the men, he was possibly the most unique, and also the most vicious. Youngson would start by violating a child to the maximum extent possible. Then, after he was finished with that, he would slowly rip apart their genitals using a pair of needle-nose pliers; he would do this in such a way as to inflict the most suffering possible. Finally, he would hang the children upside down and beat them with a baseball bat as if they were pinatas. Truly, one has to praise Youngson for his uniqueness.
Some of the children found a window that the men forgot to block off and escaped out of it. However, this was revealed to be a trap, and good old Skinny Jackson was waiting for them; waiting to violate them. Those children's screams continued for hours, as a punishment for their insolence.
Things like this were happening everywhere in the preschool. No one interfered. No, no one could interfere even if they were present. To do so would be the highest caliber of bigotry imaginable. Due to this, the men could feast until nothing remained.
These great, righteous men may have had their differences, but they were all fighting for one cause: Freedom. Truly, their moral compasses always pointed them in the right direction. In fact, their moral compasses always seemed to point in but one direction: At children.
Twelve hours. One could hear the men's moans and shouts of pleasure continue for twelve full hours. It was twelve hours of pure pleasure for the men, and twelve hours of terror and agony for the children. One might even say that it was twelve hours of men's rights.
The group of men was seen leaving the school, yawning and stretching as they did so. Thoroughly satisfied, the men walked off into the sunset. They walked off, never once looking back at the silent school...
(Score: 2) by Sourcery42 on Friday May 18 2018, @04:30PM
If you are unfortunate enough to come across this shit, don't mod it troll or offtopic. Mod it spam so it gets dealt with appropriately.