How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps [LWN.net]

How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps

Posted Feb 12, 2009 18:26 UTC (Thu) by bkor (guest, #27950)
In reply to: How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps by dskoll
Parent article: How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps

Well, I sent an e-mail to security@gnome.org, and the mail did not bounce. So either that address exists or your mail server is blackholing mail.

Or that is the wrong address. Just mailing some random thing is not a promise that it is the right method.

But I'll give an example of anti-UNIX behaviour

Ah, so you're feature request wasn't implemented. Oh well, I wouldn't call it anti.

I do want to know in which bugreport you interpreted someones remark as derision. Feature requests can be rejected, but people have to be respectful. Btw, Evolution has a plugin to use an external editor.

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How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps

Posted Feb 13, 2009 2:21 UTC (Fri) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

Well, I sent an e-mail to security@gnome.org, and the mail did not bounce. So either that address exists or your mail server is blackholing mail.
Or that is the wrong address. Just mailing some random thing is not a promise that it is the right method.

No, one of two things he or she said is true regardless of your postulation. Your comment may be pretty relevant to the right way of going about things, of course.

However, gnome does all kinds of things totally wrong in a manner that shows a failure to understand UNIX.

Gnome libraries don't even understand what standard error is for. They think it's standard debug or something. A typical gnome program has so much library spew that you couldn't ever possibly notice a real problem that the application you're using is trying to tell you about.