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Uninitialized blocks and unexpected flags

Posted Nov 29, 2012 6:14 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)
Parent article: Uninitialized blocks and unexpected flags

... a hostile application could read those blocks in the hopes of finding confidential documents, passwords, or the missing Fedora 18 Beta release announcement.

Hehe... Our esteemed editor's witty humor strikes again. :)

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Making that 2040 thesis easy

Posted Nov 29, 2012 11:03 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

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