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Found on Ars Technica — "Critical Git bug allows malicious code execution on client machines":
Developers who use the official Git client and related software are being urged to install a security update that kills a bug that could allow attackers to hijack end-user computers.
The critical vulnerability affects all Windows- and Mac-based versions of the official Git client and related software that interacts with Git repositories, according to an advisory published Thursday. The bug can be exploited to give remote code execution when the client software accesses booby-trapped Git repositories.
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Everybody is given the same amount of hormones, at birth, and
if you want to use yours for growing hair, that's fine with me.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday December 22 2014, @10:11PM
If you want a bug fixed in just about any program, I would be happy to do it for quite a reasonable consulting fee.
I'm not just blowing smoke; at Apple was a "Debug Meister", at Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications I was on the "Men in Black Team" for the XPeria Play. I was hired as Product Development Manager at Working Software because I told the owner I was a wizard with MacsBug.
I used to do embedded work on target boards where my only "debugger" was a bank of eight leds, that I could toggle on and off by writing a byte into a specific (hard-wired) memory location.
I once debugged a server hang with an oscilloscope - Physicists know how to do stuff like that - then actually fixed the bug with new serial cables, that had less capacitance. The original cables exhibited capacitive coupling - also known as parasitic capacitance - so our servers were trying to log in the garbled username that they received whenever they emitted the "SunOS login:" prompt, leading to a feedback loop that swamped their CPUs.
I also make a pretty mean pasta sauce.
If you'd like me to debug some code - not necessarily your code, if it's a Free Software codebase that you use, or that you care about - mail me at mdcrawford@gmail.com [mailto]
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 22 2014, @11:02PM
I can text, drink, and carve a turkey in a high speed chase.
I finished Minecraft. Twice.
I can tell if a lie detector tells a lie.
I've seen a peanut stand, and I've heard a rubber band. I've even seen a needle wink its eye.
I can eat a Rubik's Cube and crap it out solved.
I can touch MC Hammer.
I once beat a scarecrow in a staring contest.
(Score: 1) by srobert on Tuesday December 23 2014, @12:42AM
And do you also prefer Dos Equis?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 23 2014, @12:43AM
Just To Watch Him Die.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 23 2014, @06:09PM
If only you had a roundhouse kick. But sorry, You Are Not Chuck Norris.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Wednesday December 24 2014, @10:03PM
I've seen Bruce Schneier eat two Rubik cubes and crap out one solved and the other in the checkerboard pattern [wikihow.com].
1702845791×2
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 23 2014, @09:22AM
p.s. you may wish to update your sig too.